Diversity Regimes

Why Talk Is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19901005
AutoresJames M Thomas (0000-0002-0396-8418, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Páginas204
Fecha de publicación2020-12-31
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaDiversity Regimes (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialRutgers University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.36019/9781978800458
OpenAlexW3026868989
Open LibraryOL34091469M
ISBN9781978800458
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16

As a major, public flagship university in the American South, so-called "Diversity University" has struggled to define its commitments to diversity and inclusion, and to put those commitments into practice. In Diversity Regimes, sociologist James M. Thomas draws on more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork at DU to illustrate the conflicts and contingencies between a core set of actors at DU over what diversity is and how it should be accomplished. Thomas’s analysis of this dynamic process uncovers what he calls "diversity regimes": a complex combination of meanings, practices, and actions that work to institutionalize commitments to diversity, but in doing so obscure, entrench, and even magnify existing racial inequalities. Thomas’s concept of diversity regimes, and his focus on how they are organized and unfold in real time, provides new insights into the social organization of multicultural principles and practices

Diversity (politics) · Geography · Inequality · Mathematical analysis · Mathematics education · Political science · Racial diversity · Sociology · Academic Freedom and Politics · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Global Economic and Social Development · Higher Education Governance and Development · Mathematics · Discrimination in education · Education · Educational equalization