Reframing Diversity and Inclusive Leadership

Seth N. Asumah is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, Founding Chair and Professor of Africana Studies, and Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Cortland. As Founding Director of the Summer Institute for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice (SIDEISJ) at SUNY Cortland, Asumah co-facilitates DEI and inclusive leadership institutes with Nagel in the United States, Europe, and Africa. Mechthild Nagel is Professor of Philosophy and Affiliated Professor of Africana Studies. She is also Director of the Center for Ethics, Peace and Social Justice at SUNY Cortland. Together they have coedited Diversity, Social Justice, and Inclusive Excellence: Transdisciplinary and Global Perspectives, also published by SUNY Press.

"As America and the rest of the world struggle with white supremacist and autocratic leaders, higher education should be in the forefront to present models of education to combat this trend. Asumah and Nagel offer a 'blueprint for change.' We must go beyond our comfort zone and our sense of 'us' and 'them' to dismantle systemic racism and embrace models of diversity that exemplify integrity, civility, ethics, civic virtue, dependability, and trustworthiness." — from the foreword by Elizabeth Davis-Russell

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Foreword Elizabeth Davis-RussellPreface Introduction: Providing a Context for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Leadership in the American Polity and in a Culture of DiscontentPart 1. How Do Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Matter Today? 1. Diversity Studies and Managing Differences: Unpacking SUNY Cortland's Case and National Trends 2. The Illusion of Inclusion: Risk Management's Co-optation of Diversity and Inclusion Leadership at Whitehill University3. New Trends in Diversity Leadership and Inclusive Excellence4. Risk Management, Hegemony, and the Pitfalls of Diversity within the AcademyPart 2. Anti-oppression Traditions and Oppressive Practices: Searching for Interlocking Systems 5. Race, Questioning Immigrant Bodies, and Heteropatriarchal Masculinity: Rethinking the Obama Presidency 6. The Politics of Racial Exclusion in the Era of Inclusion: Seeing More Than an African Immigrant in US Immigration Policy 7. Black Lives Matter, All Lives Matter? 8. The Color of COVID-19 and the Knee-Lynching of George Floyd: Interrogating Systemic Racism and Inclusive Leadership 9. Me Too, Me Two, and Misogynoir 10. An American Kaleidoscope: Rethinking Diversity and Inclusion Leadership through the Prism of Gender and Race Part 3. Visions/Second Sight 11. Racial Identity, the Danger of Being Too Comfortable, and Antiracist Decision/ Policy-Making: Rethinking Whiteness 12. Ubuntu Ethics: I Am Because We AreConclusion: Sustaining an Inclusive Community of Learners—Recognition, Reconciliation, Accountability, and the Pedagogy of HealingReferences Index