TY - BOOK ID - 12227362 TI - On being included : racism and diversity in institutional life PY - 2012 SN - 9780822352211 9780822352365 0822352214 0822352362 1280687304 0822395320 9786613664242 9780822395324 PB - Durham, N.C. Duke University Press DB - UniCat KW - Minorities in higher education. KW - Racism in higher education. KW - Education, Higher KW - Cultural pluralism. KW - Universities and colleges KW - #SBIB:316.8H16 KW - Cultural diversity KW - Diversity, Cultural KW - Diversity, Religious KW - Ethnic diversity KW - Pluralism (Social sciences) KW - Pluralism, Cultural KW - Religious diversity KW - Culture KW - Cultural fusion KW - Ethnicity KW - Multiculturalism KW - Social aspects. KW - Sociological aspects. KW - Welzijns- en sociale problemen: migranten, rassenrelaties KW - Sociology of minorities KW - Higher education KW - Cultural pluralism KW - Minorities in higher education KW - Racism in higher education KW - Social aspects KW - Sociological aspects KW - Sociologie van de minderheden KW - Hoger onderwijs. Universitair onderwijs KW - United Kingdom KW - Australia KW - Cultural Diversity KW - Cultural Pluralism KW - Pluralism KW - Cultural Diversities KW - Diversities, Cultural KW - Multiculturalisms KW - Pluralisms KW - Ethical Relativism KW - Cultural Diversity. KW - Race KW - Racism KW - Black feminism KW - Book UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:12227362 AB - 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 ER -