Challenging the Status Quo : Diversity, Democracy, and Equality in the 21st Century.

Intro -- Challenging the Status Quo: Diversity, Democracy, and Equality in the 21st Century -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Map and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1: Introduction -- 1 Diversity: Good for Maintaining the Status Quo, Not So Much for Real Progressive Change -- Part 2: Policy, Politics, and Practice -- 2 Diversity and Affirmative Action: A Closer Look at Concepts and Goals -- 3 Is Diversity Racial Justice? Affirmative Action in Admissions and the Promises and Perils of Law -- 4 Disfavored Subjects: How Liberalist Diversity Fails Racial Equity in Higher Education -- 5 "Boatloads of Money" in the Great Equalizer: How Diversity Furthers Inequality at the Neoliberal University -- Part 3: Pedagogy and Transformation in Higher Education -- 6 Teaching in Black and White: Reflections of Teaching the Social Construction of Race -- 7 "Formed, Transformed, Destroyed, and Re-formed": Diversity Formation at a Majority-Minority University -- Part 4: Diversity and STEM -- 8 Diversity in STEM: How Gendered Structures Affect Women's Participation in Science -- 9 Equal Opportunity in Science: Diversity as an Economic and Social Justice Imperative -- Part 5: Diversity and Communities -- 10 Diversity in the Church: A Comparative Analysis of Multiracial, White, and Black Congregations -- 11 "Not in My Backyard": How Abstract Liberalism and Colorblind Diversity Undermines Racial Justice -- 12 Sympathetic Racism: Color-Blind Discourse's Liberal Flair in Three Diverse Communities -- Part 6: Diversity and Complex Organizations -- 13 When a Lack of Diversity Matters: How Juvenile Justice Professionals See Non-White Juveniles -- 14 Critical Diversity in the U.S. Military: From Diversity to Racialized Organizations -- 15 Undermining Prisoner Re-entry Initiatives: Neoliberalism, Race and Profits.

Part 7: Meanings, Discourse, and Identity -- 16 On-Demand Diversity? The Meanings of Racial Diversity in Netflix Productions -- 17 From Capital to Credit: On the Contingent Value of Difference within Diversity Discourse -- 18 The Spectacle of Volunteerism: Aid, Africa, and the Western Helper -- Index.

Challenging the Status Quo offers the latest cutting-edge scholarship in the subfield of sociology of diversity and inclusion.

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