Diversity Regimes by James M. Thomas - 9781978800410

Diversity RegimesWhy Talk Is not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities\nAuthor(s): James M. Thomas\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978800410, 978-1978800410\nSynopsis\n2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title\n\nAs a major, public flagship university in the American South, so-called Diversity University has struggled to define its commitments to diversity and inclusion, and to put those commitments into practice. In Diversity Regimes, sociologist James M. Thomas draws on more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork at DU to illustrate the conflicts and contingencies between a core set of actors at DU over what diversity is and how it should be accomplished. Thomass analysis of this dynamic process uncovers what he calls diversity regimes: a complex combination of meanings, practices, and actions that work to institutionalize commitments to diversity, but in doing so obscure, entrench, and.