Reframing Diversity and Inclusive Leadership : Race, Gender, and Institutional Change / Seth N. Asumah and Mechthild Nagel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Asumah, Seth Nii, 1954- author.

Nagel, Mechthild, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--Administration.

Universities and colleges.

Educational leadership.

Educational equalization.

Education, Higher--Social aspects.

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2024]

Summary:

Shows how authentic diversity and inclusive leadership practices can promote anti-racist, equitable, and transformational change in institutions of higher learning in the United States and beyond.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Preface

Introduction: Providing a Context for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Leadership in the American Polity and in

Democracy and Diversity: The Origins

Making the Case for Diversity and Inclusive Leadership

Race and Racism

Racial Despotism and Anocracy in a Democracy

The Irony of Democracy and Diversity

Diversity

Gender Trouble in the Age of Me Too

Diversity and Inclusive Leadership

How Risk Management Affects Diversity Leadership

Conclusion

Part 1. How Do Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Matter Today?

Chapter 1: Diversity Studies and Managing Differences: Unpacking SUNY Cortland's Case and National Trends

Some Historical Perspectives

Engendering the Diversity Institute at SUNY Cortland

The Rise of Diversity Education in the US

Beyond Affirmative Action and toward an Era of Diversity Management

Speaking Truth to Power and Cultivating the Art of Listening: Maintaining Difficult Dialogues

Opening the Conversation

Chapter 2: The Illusion of Inclusion: Risk Management's Co-optation of Diversity and Inclusion Leadership at Whitehill University

Introduction

Whiteness and Whitehill University

Taking Diversity and Inclusion Seriously through Faculty Development

The Irony of Inclusion, Campus Politics, and Microinvalidation: Intellectuals and Impostors

Africology, Africana Studies, Women's Studies, Student of Color Organizations: The Threat to Hegemonic Powers?

The Façade of Global Diversity and Inclusion: White Administrators, Model Minorities, and the Saga of Study Abroad in Africa

Conclusion: Reframing Our Beloved Community

Chapter 3: New Trends in Diversity Leadership and Inclusive Excellence

Diversity Management versus Diversity Leadership.

Dealing with Difficult Dialogue

Navigating Hidden Double Binds and Double Standards

Banning Boxes

Securing a Place at the Table: Admitting and Supporting Diverse Students

Academic Advising and Support of Diverse Students: Best Practices

Equality and Equity: Moving beyond Diversity Management

Chapter 4: Risk Management, Hegemony, and the Pitfalls of Diversity within the Academy

The Demand of Access and Equity: The Dream of an Open University (Deferred)

"The Fire Next Time"

The Legal Context: The Meaning of Affirmative Action in an Age of Diversity Management

Diversity Tactics: Roles of Chief Diversity Officers in the Neoliberal University

Diversity Discourses-Civility Discourses ("We All Need to Get Along")

Facing the Double Bind and Professional Double Standards

Part 2. Anti-oppression Traditions and Oppressive Practices: Searching for Interlocking Systems

Chapter 5: Race, Questioning Immigrant Bodies, and Heteropatriarchal Masculinity: Rethinking the Obama Presidency

Race and Racism Revisited

Identity Politics, President Obama, and Heteropatriarchy

The Black/White Paradigm and Race Relations under Obama

Racial Formation, Obama, and Questioning Immigrant Bodies

Blacks and Brown Bodies, "Deporter-in-Chief " and the American Dream

The Politics of Racial Exclusion, Building Fences and Obama's Executive Instrument

Heteropatriarchal Masculinity and the Obama Presidency

Chapter 6: The Politics of Racial Exclusion in the Era of Inclusion: Seeing More Than an African Immigrant in US Immigration Policy

Some Historical Trajectories of the African Presence in the United States

The Politics of Racial Exclusion: Africans and Immigrants of Color

Afrophobia and Black African Migration Scare in the United States?.

Characteristics of Black African Immigrants in the United States

Where Do Black Africans in the United States Come From?

Age, Youthification, and a Threat to American Society?

Educational Levels and the Apparent Threat to the Beloved Country

Interrogating the Racial Despotic State and the Politics of Exclusion

Chapter 7: Black Lives Matter, All Lives Matter?

Which Is It? Black Lives or All Lives?

Single Stories and Individualized Lenses

The Power and Efficacy of Student-Led Protests

Prosecuting Hate Speech? The Use of Slavery Terms in the Academy

Teaching to Transgress? The Pitfalls of Teaching about Racism

Whitewashing the Ultimate Taboo Subject: Racism in Academic Spaces

Chapter 8: The Color of COVID-19 and the Knee-Lynching of George Floyd: Interrogating Systemic Racism and Inclusive Leadership

Making Sense of Race Neutrality, Crisis Leadership, and COVID-19

Colorblindness and Kumbaya (God Come by Here) Does Not Work for COVID-19

The Syndemic: Mixing COVID-19 with Systemic Racism and Reframing George Floyd's Murder

Chapter 9: Me Too, Me Two, and Misogynoir

From Margin to Center: Black Women's Testimony in the Age of Me Too

Examples of Misogynoir Practices

White Feminism and Anti-Black Racism: Reasoning from Race

Exhibit 1: The American Revolution and False Analogies

Exhibit 2: Abolitionist Betrayals: Origins of White Women's Suffrage Movement

Exhibit 3: Assessing Misogyny and Oppression Olympics

From Black Lives Matter, Me Too, to a Global Me Two Resistance Movement

Chapter 10: An American Kaleidoscope: Rethinking Diversity and Inclusion Leadership through the Prism of Gender and Race

Introduction: First Thoughts, the Great Man Theory, and Leadership Demographics Today.

Mapping Out Gender, Race, and Leadership

Rethinking Leadership Models for the Disadvantaged

Transactional and Transformational Paradigms in Leadership Development

Failure in Diversity Management: What Happened to the Eagle and the Crow?

Part 3. Visions/Second Sight

Chapter 11: Racial Identity, the Danger of Being Too Comfortable, and Antiracist Decision/ Policy-Making: Rethinking Whiteness

Racial Identity, Race, and Racism Revisited: What of Ethnic Identity?

Searching for White Racial Identity

White Identity and Decision/Policy-Making

White Racial Comfort and the Danger of Being Too Comfortable

Rethinking Positive White Identity in the Decision-Making Sphere

Chapter 12: Ubuntu Ethics: I Am Because We Are

A Cautionary Tale of Accountability Work and Punishment in the Era of Inclusion and Diversity Management

A Call for Ubuntu Ethics

Statue Wars and Tradition: Giving Amazing Grace to the Disgraceful

Ubuntu Ethics and Diversity Management

A Note on Separatist Politics and Segregation

Accountability Work: Carceral Feminism and the Run-Away Effects of Title IX

Ban-the-Box or Move-the-Box? Expansion of Carceral Surveillance in the Twenty-First Century

Conclusion: Sustaining an Inclusive Community of Learners- Recognition, Reconciliation, Accountability, and the Pedagogy of Healing

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Asumah, Seth Nii Reframing Diversity and Inclusive Leadership

ISBN:

9781438495842