Diversity Regimes: Why Talk Is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities

by James M Thomas and James M. Thomas

Book Overview

2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

As a major, public flagship university in the American South, so-called "Diversity University" has struggled to define its commitments to diversity and inclusion, and to put those commitments into practice. In Diversity Regimes, sociologist James M. Thomas draws on more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork at DU to illustrate the conflicts and contingencies between a core set of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 197880041X
• ISBN13: 9781978800410
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher