Beschreibung:
Over the past several decades, higher education has been transformed by the entry of faculty of color and women into the university system. Through detailed institutional ethnographies of three very different universities, Privilege and Diversity in the Academy explores how this diversification has dismantled and reconfigured relationships of privilege and diversity in higher education.
1. Frameworks of Analysis: Histories and Theories of Privilege 2. Portraits of Three Institutions 3. Diversifying the Faculty 4. Linking Diversity to Excellence and Deconstructing Privilege 5. Departments and Interdisciplinary Programs: Structural Privilege and Calls for Change 6. The New Scholarship of Diversity and its Relation to Institutional Structures 7. Privilege and Diversity: Narratives of Pessimism or Hope?