From Affirmative Action to Diversity

Toward a Critical Diversity Perspective

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2369979
AutoresCedric Herring (0000-0002-1873-426X, University of Illinois Chicago), Loren Henderson (0000-0002-8313-1342, Wright College, Chicago, USA)
Ano2012
Volume38
Fascículo5
Páginas629-643
Data de publicação2012-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCritical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0896920511402701
OpenAlexW2312988985
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas47
Referências citadas26

This article provides an overview of changes in the discourse about inclusion as it has evolved from debates about affirmative action to various notions of diversity. The article seeks movement away from 'colorblind diversity' and 'segregated diversity' toward a 'critical diversity' that examines all forms of social inequality, oppression, and stratification that revolve around issues of difference. It lays out concrete strategies for doing so: (1) target goods and resources to excluded people; (2) advocate an expansive notion of diversity, but seek out distributive justice that will serve to assist 'disprivileged' groups; (3) shift resources away from privileged groups, especially when invoking the rhetoric of diversity; (4) reconnect diversity to affirmative action and the need to offset historical and ongoing racial and gender discrimination, segregation, and bias; (5) remind people that diversity is consistent with legal compliance; and (6) demonstrate to organizational members that diversity is institutionally beneficial

Affirmative action · Cultural diversity · Distributive justice · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Political science · Rhetoric · Sociology · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Politics and Representation · Labor Movements and Unions · Law