Diversity regimes : why talk is not enough to fix racial inequality at universities

Thomas, James M. 1982- (Author).

Summary: "In Diversity Regimes, James M. Thomas uncovers a complex combination of meanings, practices, and actions that work to institutionalize universities' commitments to diversity, but in doing so obscure, entrench, and even magnify existing racial inequalities. Drawing on two years of ethnographic field work at so-called "Diversity University," Thomas provides new insights into the social organization of multicultural principles and practices"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781978800410 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
244 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2020.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- Under the live, old oak trees -- Go your own way : the organizational structure of diversity -- Staging difference, performing diversity -- Diversity regimes and the reproduction of racial inequality.