{"product_id":"on-being-included-sara-ahmed-9780822352365","title":"On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life","description":"What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable, feature of institutional life. Yet diversity practitioners often experience institutions as resistant to their work, as captured through their use of the metaphor of the \"brick wall.\" \u003ci\u003eOn Being Included\u003c\/i\u003e offers an explanation of this apparent paradox. It explores the gap between symbolic commitments to diversity and the experience of those who embody diversity. Commitments to diversity are understood as \"non-performatives\" that do not bring about what they name. The book provides an account of institutional whiteness and shows how racism can be obscured by the institutionalization of diversity. Diversity is used as evidence that institutions do not have a problem with racism. \u003ci\u003eOn Being Included\u003c\/i\u003e offers a critique of what happens when diversity is offered as a solution. It also shows how diversity workers generate knowledge of institutions in attempting to transform them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sara Ahmed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822352362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822352365\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/28\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 6.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2013","brand":"Sara Ahmed","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44049776935167,"sku":"9780822352365","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1bc2fc3b-3fe5-48d5-a8a6-a46788fc9fb4.jpg?v=1685003397","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/on-being-included-sara-ahmed-9780822352365","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}