Challenging the Status Quo

David G. Embrick, Ph.D. (2006), Texas A&M University, is Associate Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut. He has published extensively in journals such as Critical Sociology, Social Problems, and Journal of Symbolic Interaction.Sharon M. Collins, Ph.D. (1988), Northwestern University, is Associate Professor Emerita of Sociology at University of Illinois at Chicago. She has published extensively, to include Black Corporate Executives (Temple University Press, 1997).Michelle Dodson is an advanced graduate student at Loyola University Chicago.

• AcknowledgmentsMap and TablesNotes on ContributorsPart 1: Introduction1Diversity: Good for Maintaining the Status Quo, Not So Much for Real Progressive ChangeDavid G. EmbrickPart 2: Policy, Politics, and Practice2Diversity and Affirmative Action: A Closer Look at Concepts and GoalsSharon M. Collins3Is Diversity Racial Justice? Affirmative Action in Admissions and the Promises and Perils of LawEllen Berrey4Disfavored Subjects: How Liberalist Diversity Fails Racial Equity in Higher EducationJoyce M. Bell and Wendy Leo Moore5“Boatloads of Money” in the Great Equalizer: How Diversity Furthers Inequality at the Neoliberal UniversityMichael Kreiter and Arthur ScarrittPart 3: Pedagogy and Transformation in Higher Education6Teaching in Black and White: Reflections of Teaching the Social Construction of RaceTiffany Davis, Wendy Leo Moore and Joyce M. Bell7“Formed, Transformed, Destroyed, and Re-formed”: Diversity Formation at a Majority-Minority UniversityShan MukhtarPart 4: Diversity and stem8Diversity in stem: How Gendered Structures Affect Women’s Participation in ScienceMarie des Neiges Léonard9Equal Opportunity in Science: Diversity as an Economic and Social Justice ImperativeEnobong Hannah Branch and Sharla AlegriaPart 5: Diversity and Communities10Diversity in the Church: A Comparative Analysis of Multiracial, White, and Black CongregationsMichelle S. Dodson11“Not in My Backyard”: How Abstract Liberalism and Colorblind Diversity Undermines Racial JusticeLaurie Cooper Stoll and Megan Klein12Sympathetic Racism: Color-Blind Discourse’s Liberal Flair in Three Diverse CommunitiesMeghan A. BurkePart 6: Diversity and Complex Organizations13When a Lack of Diversity Matters: How Juvenile Justice Professionals See Non-White JuvenilesPaul R. Ketchum14Critical Diversity in the U.S. Military: From Diversity to Racialized OrganizationsVictor Erik Ray15Undermining Prisoner Re-entry Initiatives: Neoliberalism, Race and ProfitsEdward Orozco FloresPart 7: Meanings, Discourse, and Identity16On-Demand Diversity? The Meanings of Racial Diversity in Netflix ProductionsBianca Gonzalez-Sobrino, Emma González-Lesser and Matthew W. Hughey17From Capital to Credit: On the Contingent Value of Difference within Diversity DiscourseAntonia Randolph18The Spectacle of Volunteerism: Aid, Africa, and the Western HelperMichele C. DeramoIndex