Rethinking Diversity Frameworks in Higher Education

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With the goal of building more inclusive working, learning, and living environments in higher education, this book seeks to reframe understandings of forms of everyday exclusion that affect members of nondominant groups on predominantly white college campuses. The book contextualizes the need for a more robust analysis of persistent patterns of campus inequality by addressing key trends that have reshaped the landscape for diversity, including rapid demographic change, reduced public spending on higher education, and a polarized political climate. Specifically, it offers a critique of contemporary analytical ideas such as micro-aggressions and implicit and unconscious bias and underscores the impact of consequential discriminatory events (or macro-aggressions) and racial and gender-based inequalities (macro-inequities) on members of nondominant groups. The authors draw extensively upon interview studies and qualitative research findings to illustrate the reproduction of social inequality through behavioral and process-based outcomes in the higher education environment. They identify a more powerful systemic framework and conceptual vocabulary that can be used for meaningful change. In addition, the book highlights coping and resistance strategies that have regularly enabled members of nondominant groups to address, deflect, and counteract everyday forms of exclusion.　 The book offers concrete approaches, concepts, and tools that will enable higher education leaders to identify, address, and counteract persistent structural and behavioral barriers to inclusion. As such, it shares a series of practical recommendations that will assist presidents, provosts, executive officers, boards of trustees, faculty, administrators, diversity officers, human resource leaders, diversity taskforces, and researchers as they seek to implement comprehensive strategies that result in sustained diversity change. Cover Praise Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Foreword by Santa J. Ono Introduction Research and Policy Questions We Attempt to Answer Organization of the Book Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Campus Turmoil: The “New Normal” of Racist Speech and Actions The “Coming White Minority”: Backdrop of Campus Change Demographic Change: Contexts and Consequences “Colorblindness” and Racial Segregation Maintaining White Dominance in the Midst of Change Reactions to Racial Integration: Maintaining White Dominance in Higher Education Systemic Racism and Systemic Sexism: A Better Conceptual Approach Conclusion Chapter 2: Discriminatory Experiences from Academic Frontlines: Limits of Organizational and Legal Redress Painful Tenure Hurdles for Faculty of Color More Evaluation Hurdles: Racist and Sexist Framing in Operation Long-term Impacts on Targets of Discrimination Active Resistance by Underrepresented Faculty Members Conclusion Chapter 3: Questioning “Implicit Bias” and “Microaggressions”: Toward Better Terminology and Concepts Implicit Racial Bias: The IAT Rethinking the “Micro” Concepts: An Overview Beyond Implicit Bias and Microaggressions: Systemic Racism and the White Racial Frame Questioning the Popularity of Implicit Bias Diversity Training Conclusion Chapter 4: Reformulating the Concept of "Microaggressions”: Everyday Discrimination in Academia The Academic Playbook: Much Discriminatory Decision-Making Reframing Microaggressions: A Better Conceptual Vocabulary Conclusion Chapter 5: Imposed Racial Identities: Another Essential Concept Naming and Conceptualizing the “Imposed Identity” Process Identities: Political and Psychological Dynamics of Discrimination Day-to-Day Realities of Imposed Identity Identity Issues: Prevalent Asian American Stereotypes Identity Issues: Negative Latino/a Framing Imposed Racial Framing: Native Americans Identifying as Multiracial American Conclusion Chapter 6: Resisting and Coping with Everyday Discrimination Stress and Coping with Everyday Discrimination Types of Coping Responses Everyday Discrimination and Career Costs Proactive Coping Strategies Conclusion Chapter 7: Moving Forward: Issues, Strategies, and Recommended Solutions Accenting a Better Analytical Framework: Systemic Racism and Sexism Solutions for Two-Tiered Apartheid in Higher Education Diversity Leadership Strategies Conclusion Index