Diversity, social justice, and inclusive excellence
Subtitle: transdisciplinary and global perspectives
By: edited by Seth N. Asumah and Mechthild Nagel
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9781438451633
Subjects: Cultural pluralism; Social justice; Racism; Blacks; Race identity; People with mental disabilities; Government policy; Oppression (Psychology); Sex role
Description: When students are introduced to the study of diversity and social justice, it is usually from sociological and psychological perspectives. The scholars and activists featured in this anthology reject this approach as too limiting, insisting that we adopt a view that is both transdisciplinary and multiperspectival. Their essays focus on the components of diversity, social justice, and inclusive excellence, not just within the United States but in other parts of the world. They examine diversity in the contexts of culture, race, class, gender, learned ability and dis/ability, religion, sexual orientation, and citizenship, and explore how these concepts and identities interrelate. The result is a book that will provide readers with a better theoretical understanding of diversity studies and will enable them to see and think critically about oppression and how systems of oppression may be challenged.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: About the contributors; title: Preface / Seth N. Asumah and Mechthild Nagel; title: Doing diversity for cultural competence, social justice and inclusive excellence; title: Five faces of oppression / Iris Marion Young; title: The vicissitudes of cultural competence : dealing with difficult classroom dialogue / Elizabeth Davis-Russell and Gale Young; title: Gender, race, class, homosexuality, disability, immigration and animal oppression in the United States; title: Teaching feminist pedagogy on race and gender : beyond the additive approach? / Mechthild Nagel; title: Beyond the pale : reflections on the vulnerability of Black life in the United States / Mechthild Nagel; title: Women's work trips and multifaceted oppression / Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo; title: Racial identity and policy making : redefining whiteness / Seth N. Asumah; title: Examining cyberstalking through the prism of race and gender / Tosha A. Asumah and Debra F. Glaser; title: Framing the same-sex marriage issue as equity / Christopher P. Latimer; title: Oppression's three new faces : rethinking Iris Young's "Five faces of oppression" for disability theory / Elizabeth Purcell; title: Gender and the politics of invisible disability / Nancy J. Hirschmann; title: Stigmatized, marginalized, and ill : the oppression of people with serious mental illness / Diane C. Gooding and William T. L. Cox; title: Rethinking United States immigration policy, diversity, and the politics of exclusion / Seth N. Asumah and Matthew Todd Bradley; title: The faces of animal oppression / Lori Gruen; title: Doing diversity worldwide for global justice; title: The tale of two worlds : unpacking the power of the global North over the global South / Gowri Parameswaran; title: Feeding the city and financing the family : women market traders in Suva, Fiji / Susan C. Dewey and Cema Bolabola; title: China in Africa : dislocating cultures, reexamining the role of the nation state and the China model in the process of development / Seth N. Asumah; title: Political struggle of rural migrant hostesses for first-class citizenship in postsocialist China / Tiantian Zheng; title: Understanding disability rights in a global context / Janet M. Duncan; title: Islam, rentier states and the quest for democracy in the Middle East and Africa / Seth N. Asumah; title: African relational democracy : reframing diversity, economic development and society-centered governance for the twenty-first century / Seth N. Asumah; title: Index.