The Student of Color Attainment Gap in Higher Education and the Institutional Culture of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Abstract

This chapter analyzes the student of color attainment gap in England from the perspective of equality, diversity, and inclusion's (EDI) failure to catalyze institutional anti-racist change. It sees EDI as key to the libidinal economies

Striving for Inclusion of Diverse Employees: How Important is the Context?

“…An interesting finding from our study was that D&I policies only work if there was presence of culture of acceptance. An inclusive culture, which is imperative to create an inclusive climate (Carrington, 1999; Findler et al, 2007; Tate, 2020; Zollers et al, 1999) will only be created due to the precedent set by the founders and senior management (Shore et al, 2018). At TG, senior management set a culture that accommodated diverse needs and laid the groundwork for inclusion.…”

Shirley Anne Tate E Sua Perspectiva Feminista Negra Decolonial: Contribuições Para Os Estudos Organizacionais

“…Neste sentido, a produção acadêmica-ativista da professora Tate faz uma enorme contribuição ao denunciar o racismo institucional, interpessoal e as microagressões (Tate, 2016(Tate, , 2019a(Tate, , 2020Bagguley, 2017). De maneira geral, a autora alerta para como as instituições brancas, signatárias do contrato racial, na perspectiva de Charles Mills, utilizamse do preconceito (in)consciente ((un)conscious bias) para negar o racismo, diminuir a supremacia branca e manter uma "inocência branca" Page, 2018).…”

“…De maneira geral, a autora alerta para como as instituições brancas, signatárias do contrato racial, na perspectiva de Charles Mills, utilizamse do preconceito (in)consciente ((un)conscious bias) para negar o racismo, diminuir a supremacia branca e manter uma "inocência branca" Page, 2018). Em relação ao epistemicídio (Carneiro, 2005), Tate (Tate, 2019a(Tate, , 2020Bagguley, 2019) Ao considerar o corpo docente, Shirley Tate destaca também experiências de marginalização, narrativas sobre quem (sobre)vive dentro da Torre de Marfim (Gabriel;. Falando sobre a raiva, Tate (2019a) associa a raiva à dor psicológica institucional vivida pelas professoras negras no Reino Unido, ao mesmo tempo que desconstrói o estereótipo da mulher negra raivosa, destacando que essa raiva é proveniente de algo fora do corpo da mulher negra.…”

“…Curiosamente, em muitos desses trabalhos, há uma ausência de engajamento com as contribuições de autores/as negros/as e/ou indígenas, que sequer são citados(a)s. (Tavares et al, 2021). Nesse sentido, é preciso valorizar o conhecimento produzido pelas mulheres negras, marginalizadas nas estruturas racistas e sexistas do conhecimento em nossa sociedade (Figueiredo, 2020;Grosfoguel, 2013;hooks, 1995;Miñoso, 2017;Tate, 2018Tate, , 2019aTate, , 2020, e demarcar a importância das revistas acadêmicas da área de Administração na promoção da inclusão e da diversidade no campo a partir da interseccionalidade, decolonialidade e transversalidade (Teixeira et al, 2021).…”

The “diseased” activist's body as the site of trauma: Anti‐racist struggles and the postrace academy

“…Postrace then comes to signify an intensely intimate colonization of the racialized subject in the project of ridding the university of its ivory‐tower baggage in which social and racial hierarchies and networked dominance of Whiteness is engaged in the missionary zeal of delivering racial equality through accreditation and elaborate “Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion” (EDI) plans composed on formalized committee structures which reabsorb the White bio‐politics of power in the process of redressing student attainment gaps and restoring equality to Black and minority ethnic communities (Atkinson et al., 2018; Bhopal & Pitkin, 2020; Doharty, 2018; Tate, 2017). The postrace university, marked by terminologies such as “attainment gap” and deficit discourses which sustain race and ethnicity as problems to be constantly managed and couched within new strategies of subject governance, external EDI consultants, data engineering and trophy hunting, signals an intimate tryst with the racialized subjects through a reformist agenda of racial justice and equality (Mountford‐Zimdans et al., 2015; Smith, 2017; Tate, 2020). The enactment of Black and Minority Ethnic communities through the acronym of BAME in the UK has been a deeply contentious category for locating diverse populations whose lived experiences have been shaped by different historical trajectories under a seemingly homogenizing banner.…”