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008			210517s2012 ncu b 001 0 eng c
020			_a9780822352365 (pbk.)
020			_a0822352362 (pbk.)
020			_a9780822352211 (cloth)
020			_a0822352214 (cloth)
035			_a(OCoLC)748336552
050			_aLC212.4 _b.A36 2012
084			_a71.61 _2bcl
100	1		_aAhmed, Sara, _d1969-
245	1	0	_aOn being included : _bracism and diversity in institutional life / _cSara Ahmed.
260			_aDurham : _bDuke University Press, _c2012.
300			_ax, 243 p.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 191-220, 221-234) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction : on arrival -- Institutional life -- The language of diversity -- Equality and performance culture -- Commitment as a non-performative -- Speaking about racism -- Conclusion : a phenomenological practice.
520			_a"What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable, feature of institutional life. Yet diversity practitioners often experience institutions as resistant to their work, as captured through their use of the metaphor of the "brick wall." On Being Included offers an explanation of this apparent paradox. It explores the gap between symbolic commitments to diversity and the experience of those who embody diversity. Commitments to diversity are understood as "non-performatives" that do not bring about what they name. The book provides an account of institutional whiteness and shows how racism can be obscured by the institutionalization of diversity. Diversity is used as evidence that institutions do not have a problem with racism. On Being Included offers a critique of what happens when diversity is offered as a solution. It also shows how diversity workers generate knowledge of institutions in attempting to transform them."--Publisher's description.
650		4	_aMinorities in higher education.
650		4	_aRacism in higher education.
650		4	_aEducation, Higher _xSocial aspects.
650		4	_aCultural pluralism.
650		4	_aUniversities and colleges _xSociological aspects.
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999			_c2008 _d2008