Using Social Justice Vignettes to Prepare Students for Social Action Engagement

Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Performing Arts Workforce

“…The historically White performing arts workforce is not collectively representative of the human experience, yet respondents interviewed for this study maintain that racial and ethnic diversity is crucial to the health and survival of the performing arts workforce. A racially and ethnically diverse performing arts workforce collectively committed to social justice or social action engagement 87 will disrupt and dismantle the web of interrelated systemic, institutional, and interpersonal barriers that continue to perpetuate a primarily White nonprofit performing arts sector. When racial and ethnic ADEI is viewed and executed as a core value, predominately White performing arts organizations not only dismantle historic institutional structural barriers and attack individual bias, but also acknowledge and fully embrace the assets and implications of a culturally plural workforce.…”