Introduction -- Campus turmoil: the "new normal" of racist speech and actions -- Discriminatory experiences from academic frontlines: limits of organizational and legal redress -- Questioning "implicit bias" and "microaggressions": toward better terminology and concepts -- Reformulating the concept of "microaggressions": everyday discrimination in academia -- Imposed racial identities: another essential concept -- Resisting and coping with everyday discrimination -- Moving forward: issues, strategies, and recommended solutions.
Summary:
"The book offers concrete approaches, concepts, and tools that will enable higher education leaders to identify, address, and counteract persistent structural and behavioral barriers to inclusion. As such, it shares a series of practical recommendations that will assist presidents, provosts, executive officers, boards of trustees, faculty, administrators, diversity officers, human resource leaders, diversity taskforces, and researchers as they seek to implement comprehensive strategies that result in sustained diversity change" -- Provided by publisher.
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