Diversity Regimes

Why Talk Is not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities

James M. Thomas (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2020
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-0042-7 (ISBN)

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As a 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. James Thomas draws on ethnographic fieldwork at DU to illustrate the conflicts and contingencies over what diversity is and how it should be accomplished.

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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.

JAMES M. THOMAS (JT) is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. He is the author of Working to Laugh: Assembling Difference in American Stand-up Comedy Venues, and the coauthor of Affective Labor: (Dis)Assembling Difference and Distance and Are Racists Crazy? How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity.

1. Introduction
2. Under the Live, Old Oaks
3. Condensation and the Alchemy of Diversity
4. Go Your Own Way: The Organizational Structure of Diversity
5. Staging Difference, Performing Diversity
6. Diversity Regimes and the Reproduction of Racial Inequality
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.09.2020
Reihe/Serie	The American Campus
Zusatzinfo	3 b&w images, 4 tables
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	458 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-0042-8 / 1978800428
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-0042-7 / 9781978800427
Zustand	Neuware