After Diversity

The Rise, Fall, and Future of a Broken Promise

AvKim Tran

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

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A clear-eyed reckoning with the failures of the DEI industry, and a case for how its tools can be revived to build powerBefore President Trump gutted federal DEI programs, and a quarter of corporations followed suit, the diversity, equity and inclusion industry was everyone’s favorite political punching bag. The right blamed DEI for everything from plane crashes to making white people feel bad, while some on the left were all too eager to celebrate its demise.In After Diversity,writer, organizer, and former DEI consultant Kim Tran argues that while DEI was never the political horizon, at its core is an understanding that workplaces and educational institutions are sites of struggle. Tran takes a hard look at the DEI industry’s fraught history, explaining why, in the decades after the civil rights movement, it failed to deliver on its lofty promises. From union-busting personnel managers to celebrity influencers, DEI has offered feelings of belonging that foreclose politicization and encourage loyalty to companies and institutions.Yet the same features that made DEI such a threat to the right are what makes it useful now. In creating spaces to address political feelings, build community, and confront institutional policies, DEI’s infrastructure can be mobilized in the urgent fight against fascism and white supremacy.

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Utgivningsdatum:2027-01-19
Mått:130 x 198 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:160
Förlag:Haymarket Books
ISBN:9798888907641

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Kim Tran is a writer, consultant, and organizer. Her work sits at the intersection of identity, social critique, and protest movements. Her commentary on race, gender, and abolition has been featured in NPR, Slate, and the New York Times, and her writing has been featured in Vice, Harper’s Bazaar, and Teen Vogue. Tran holds a doctorate from UC Berkeley where she studied solidarity movements in the Black Lives Matter era. She lives in Oakland, CA.

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IntroductionChapter 1: A Perpetual House of Cards In Chapter One I lay out the major players of the modern DEI and how the industry was built to fail. It organizes the Civil Rights activists, bureaucrats, and influencers into a coherent, messy whole to illustrate the inherent faultlines of the industry.Chapter Two: the Elephant in the RoomChapter two outlines the relationship between DEI and union avoidance through one of its most popular tools, Employee Resource Groups.Chapter 3: A Bridge to EverywhereIn Chapter 3 I begin the argument for DEI, explaining its stubborn popularity, uncontroversial messaging and ubiquity as potential assets to organizers and in movements.Chapter 4: We Could Be: What Comes After a Broken PromiseIn Chapter 4 I lay out the possibility of DEI and how it could be used. Making an argument for effectively marshaling political feelings and being hyper aware of its limitations, I claim that DEI can be more than a profound political disappointment.Conclusion