Diversity, Social Justice, and Inclusive Excellence

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Winner of the 2016 NYASA Book Award presented by the New York African Studies Association

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.
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments

Part I. Doing Diversity for Cultural Competence, Social Justice, and Inclusive Excellence

1. Five Faces of Oppression
Iris Marion Young

2. The Vicissitudes of Cultural Competence: Dealing With Difficult Classroom Dialogue
Gale Young and Elizabeth David-Russell

Part II. Gender, Race, Class, Homosexuality, Disability, Immigration, and Animal Oppression in the United States

3. Teaching Feminist Pedagogy on Race and Gender: Beyond the Additive Approach?
Mechthild Nagel

4. Beyond the Pale: Reflections on the Vulnerability of Black Life in the United States
Mechthild Nagel

5. Women’s Work Trips and Multifaceted Oppression
Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo

6. Racial Identity and Policy Making: Redefining Whiteness
Seth N. Asumah

7. Examining Cyberstalking Through the Prism of Race and Gender
Tosha A. Asumah and Debra F. Glaser

8. Framing the Same-Sex Marriage Issue as Equity
Christopher P. Latimer

9. Oppression’s Three New Faces: Rethinking Iris Young’s “Five Faces of Oppression” for Disability Theory
Elizabeth Purcell

10. Gender and the Politics of Invisible Disability
Nancy J. Hirschmann

11. Stigmatized, Marginalized, and Ill: The Oppression of People with Serious Mental Illness
Diane C. Gooding and William T. L. Cox

12. Rethinking United States Immigration Policy, Diversity, and the Politics of Exclusion
Seth N. Asumah and Matthew Todd Bradley

13. The Faces of Animal Oppression
Lori Gruen

Part III. Doing Diversity and Facing Global Challenges

14. The Tale of Two Worlds: Unpacking the Power of the Global North Over the Global South
Gowri Parameswaran

15. Feeding the City and Financing the Family: Women Market Traders in Suva, Fiji
Susan Dewey and Cema Bolabola

16. China in Africa: Dislocating Cultures, Re-examining the Role of the Nation-State, and the China Model in the Process of Development
Seth N. Asumah

17. Political Struggle of Rural Migrant Hostesses for First-Class Citizenship in Postsocialist China
Tiantian Zheng

18. Understanding Disability Rights in a Global Context
Janet M. Duncan

19. Islam, Rentier States, and the Quest for Democracy in the Middle East and Africa
Seth N. Asumah

20. African Relational Democracy: Reframing Diversity, Economic Development, and Society-Centered Governance for the Twenty-First Century
Seth N. Asumah

About the Editors
About the Contributors
Index

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• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 19 mai 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438451640
• Langue: English

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Diversity, Social Justice, and Inclusive Excellence
Diversity, Social Justice, and Inclusive Excellence
Transdisciplinary and Global Perspectives
Edited by
Seth N. Asumah
and
Mechthild Nagel
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Diversity, social justice, and inclusive excellence : transdisciplinary and global perspectives / edited by Seth N. Asumah and Mechthild Nagel. pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4384-5163-3 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Cultural pluralism. 2. Social justice. 3. Racism. 4. Blacks—Race identity—United States. 5. People with mental disabilities—Government policy—United States. 6. Oppression (Psychology) 7. Sex role. I. Asumah, Seth Nii, 1954–editor of compilation.
HM1271.D5843 2014
305.800973—dc23
2013025547
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
To Lorraine Y. Brathwaite—S.N.A.
To Philip Otieno—M.N.
To All those who have sacrificed their lives for social justice and those who are engaged in the struggle to eradicate oppression and injustice
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I Doing Diversity for Cultural Competence, Social Justice, and Inclusive Excellence
1 Five Faces of Oppression
Iris Marion Young
2 The Vicissitudes of Cultural Competence: Dealing With Difficult Classroom Dialogue
Gale Young and Elizabeth Davis-Russell
PART II Gender, Race, Class, Homosexuality, Disability, Immigration, and Animal Oppression in the United States
3 Teaching Feminist Pedagogy on Race and Gender: Beyond the Additive Approach?
Mechthild Nagel
4 Beyond the Pale: Reflections on the Vulnerability of Black Life in the United States
Mechthild Nagel
5 Women’s Work Trips and Multifaceted Oppression
Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo
6 Racial Identity and Policy Making: Redefining Whiteness
Seth N. Asumah
7 Examining Cyberstalking Through the Prism of Race and Gender
Tosha A. Asumah and Debra F. Glaser
8 Framing the Same-Sex Marriage Issue as Equity
Christopher P. Latimer
9 Oppression’s Three New Faces: Rethinking Iris Young’s “Five Faces of Oppression” for Disability Theory
Elizabeth Purcell
10 Gender and the Politics of Invisible Disability
Nancy J. Hirschmann
11 Stigmatized, Marginalized, and Ill: The Oppression of People With Serious Mental Illness
Diane C. Gooding and William T. L. Cox
12 Rethinking United States Immigration Policy, Diversity, and the Politics of Exclusion
Seth N. Asumah and Matthew Todd Bradley
13 The Faces of Animal Oppression
Lori Gruen
PART III Doing Diversity and Facing Global Challenges
14. The Tale of Two Worlds: Unpacking the Power of the Global North Over the Global South
Gowri Parameswaran
15 Feeding the City and Financing the Family: Women Market Traders in Suva, Fiji
Susan Dewey and Cema Bolabola
16 China in Africa: Dislocating Cultures, Re-examining the Role of the Nation-State, and the China Model in the Process of Development
Seth N. Asumah
17 Political Struggle of Rural Migrant Hostesses for First-Class Citizenship in Postsocialist China
Tiantian Zheng
18 Understanding Disability Rights in a Global Context
Janet M. Duncan
19 Islam, Rentier States, and the Quest for Democracy in the Middle East and Africa
Seth N. Asumah
20 African Relational Democracy: Reframing Diversity, Economic Development, and Society-Centered Governance for the Twenty-First Century
Seth N. Asumah
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Index
List of Illustrations
Tables Table 5.1 Women’s Use of Public Transportation (percent) Table 5.2 Women’s Average Work-Trip Time (minutes) Table 5.3 Reverse Commutes of Women Auto Users (minutes) Table 5.4 Differences in Women’s Trip Time by Occupaton (minutes) Table 5.5 Work Trip Time of Mothers (minutes) Table 5.6 Differences among Women with Long Commutes Table 5.7 Typology of Commutes Table 5.8 Commute Types of Suburban Residents in Buffalo 2000 (percent) Table 12.1 Top 12 Origins of Immigrants to the United States Table 18.1 The Capabilities Approach Framework (Nussbaum, 2006) and Comparative Articles from UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2007)
Figures Figure 6.1 Racial Structural Functional Model Figure 8.1 Changing Attitudes on Same-Sex Marriage Figure 12.1 Educational Levels of Native-Born and Neosojourners, 2009 Figure 12.2 Poverty Rate Figure 12.3 The Immigration Chart Figure 14.1 Map of the Global North and the Global South Figure 20.1 Percentage of People in the Top Ten Nation States Living in a Democracy in Africa
Preface
Diversity has become a hallmark of twenty-first century academia in the United States. No institution wishes to be left behind in discursive formations about difference and the impact of identity politics. Clearly, experiences based on culture, race, ethnicity, sex, gender, class, religion, citizenship, age, and developed abilities continue to shape all aspects of human conditions, and the “life of the mind” has to take notice. Diversity discourse also takes into account how to make sense of intercultural and global interactions. The sociopolitical dynamics of the categories above are fluid and continue to change with the transformation of group political consciousness, the authority of the state in distributing justice, and the effects of globalization on both agents of power and target groups of those who have suffered historical and current marginalization, exploitation, and powerlessness. Yet, no one category of the components of diversity listed above has monopoly over oppression in order to claim the benefits of social injustice or disavows of global paralysis due to cultural imperialism and violence. Micro- and macrocultures of injustice and the new forms of the politics of exclusion resulting in the denial of justice, equity, and inclusive excellence for students of color, underrepresented policy beneficiaries, many historically and newly marginalized groups, people with disabilities, women, homosexuals, Muslims, immigrants, and the working poor, not just in the United States of America, but around the globe have called for a kaleidoscopic approach and transdisciplinary perspectives in examining global diversity, social justice, and inclusive excellence. Inclusive Excellence (IE), supported by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has come to mean that diversity is a key component of a comprehensive strategy for achieving institutional excellence. Diversity is essential for reaching and ensuring academic excellence for all students attending college, and deliberate actions must be taken to educate all students to succeed in a diverse society and arm them with complex intercultural accoutrements for success in the twenty-first century (AAC&U, 2002).
Does the election of Barack Obama to the Office of the Presidency mean we have reached the postracial era in the United States, or does his preference for selecting Black instead of mixed race on the census complicate the dynamics of identity politics and the politics of difference? What does this election mean to the discourse regarding White privilege in our classrooms and around the globe? Does the Liberian presidency of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman to be president in Africa, indicate that male hegemony has surrendered to the forces of feminism or Africana womanism, and has the glass ceiling been finally shattered? Does the Chinese presence in Africa or the United States’ recent killing of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan speak to new forms of cultural imperialism and Islamophobia? How do we interpret the new immigration waves around the world and the effects of globalization on age, learned ability, race, gender, social class, and their interconnectedness with systemic injustice?
With respect to the interlocutors of diversity, the questions above can only be answered properly if educators and students of diversity and social justice become culturally competent and know how race, ethnicity, gender, class, religion, citizenship, learned ability, sexual orientation, and their intersectionalities are psycho-socially and culturally constructed, systemic and global. The categories of diversity shape our experiences in the classroom, communities, United States and the world over. To be responsible, culturally competent citizens, who reside in productive nation states, whose interaction with other people in the world is inevitable, we have no choice but to work to eradicate oppression and the injustices associated with “othering” before they become an anathema of our humanity.
This edited volume assembles several essays that focus on the components of diversity, social justice, and inclusive excellence, not just within the United States, but in other parts of the world. The categories will include but are not limited to culture, race, class, gender, learned ability, religion, sexual orientation, and