Reframing Diversity and Inclusive Leadership

Race, Gender, and Institutional Change

Seth N. Asumah, Mechthild Nagel

• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9781438495842
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Higher Education

How can we tackle racism and sexism on our college and university campuses? What is the role of education leaders in advancing social justice? Reframing Diversity and Inclusive Leadership addresses the urgent need for more than merely performative gestures toward—and a redoubled, authentically engaged investment in—diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Seth N. Asumah and Mechthild Nagel examine how traditional leadership models have tended to exacerbate racial and gender inequities in United States higher education and society at large. Using a cross-cultural, comparative approach indebted to critical race theory, critical whiteness studies, and Black feminism, Asumah and Nagel draw on decades of combined experience in the US and globally to provide a framework for inclusive leadership practices, actions, and policies. A valuable resource for administrators, faculty, students, and political and industry leaders, Reframing Diversity and Inclusive Leadership responds to calls for justice on campuses and beyond.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction: Providing a Context for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Leadership in the American Polity and in a Culture of Discontent
• Part 1 How Do Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Matter Today?
• Part 2 Anti-oppression Traditions and Oppressive Practices: Searching for Interlocking Systems
• Part 3 Visions/Second Sight
• Conclusion: Sustaining an Inclusive Community of Learners—Recognition, Reconciliation, Accountability, and the Pedagogy of Healing
• References
• Index
• Back Cover