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On Being Included : Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life.

By: Publisher: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2012Copyright date: 2012Description: x, 243 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780822352211
  • 0822352214
  • 9780822352365
  • 0822352362
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.1/9829 23
LOC classification:
  • LC212.4 .A398 2012
Contents:
Introduction : on arrival -- Institutional life -- The language of diversity -- Equality and performance culture -- Commitment as a non-performative -- Speaking about racism -- Conclusion : a phenomenological practice.
Summary: "What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable, feature of institutional life. Yet diversity practitioners often experience institutions as resistant to their work, as captured through their use of the metaphor of the "brick wall." On Being Included offers an explanation of this apparent paradox. It explores the gap between symbolic commitments to diversity and the experience of those who embody diversity. Commitments to diversity are understood as "non-performatives" that do not bring about what they name. The book provides an account of institutional whiteness and shows how racism can be obscured by the institutionalization of diversity. Diversity is used as evidence that institutions do not have a problem with racism. On Being Included offers a critique of what happens when diversity is offered as a solution. It also shows how diversity workers generate knowledge of institutions in attempting to transform them."--Publisher's description.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab LC212.4 .A398 2012 1 Available 50583020007575
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-220, 221-234) and index.

Introduction : on arrival -- Institutional life -- The language of diversity -- Equality and performance culture -- Commitment as a non-performative -- Speaking about racism -- Conclusion : a phenomenological practice.

"What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable, feature of institutional life. Yet diversity practitioners often experience institutions as resistant to their work, as captured through their use of the metaphor of the "brick wall." On Being Included offers an explanation of this apparent paradox. It explores the gap between symbolic commitments to diversity and the experience of those who embody diversity. Commitments to diversity are understood as "non-performatives" that do not bring about what they name. The book provides an account of institutional whiteness and shows how racism can be obscured by the institutionalization of diversity. Diversity is used as evidence that institutions do not have a problem with racism. On Being Included offers a critique of what happens when diversity is offered as a solution. It also shows how diversity workers generate knowledge of institutions in attempting to transform them."--Publisher's description.

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