Overview
- Examines and deconstructs understandings of structural inequalities in Higher Education Institutions.
- Illustrates the connections between historical events and discourse and racialized acts of violence.
- Calls for a redistribution of power across intersectional and racial lines in the academy
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Race, Inequality and Social Justice in Education (PSRISJE)
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This book provides a forensic and collective examination of pre-existing understandings of structural inequalities in Higher Education Institutions. Going beyond the current understandings of causal factors that promote inequality, the editors and contributors illuminate the dynamic interplay between historical events and discourse and more sophisticate and racialized acts of violence. In doing so, the book crystallises myriad contemporary manifestations of structural racism in higher education. Amidst an upsurge in racialized violence, civil unrest, and barriers to attainment, progression and success for students and staff of colour, doing equity and diversity for success in higher education has become both politically urgent and morally imperative. This book calls for a redistribution of power across intersectional and racial lines as a means of decentering whiteness and redressing structural inequalities in the academy. It is essential reading for scholars of sociology and education, as well as those interested in equality and social justice.
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
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A Review of the Past and a Look into the Future
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Equality, Diversity, Inclusivity or Decolonisation: The Big Conundrum
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dave S. P. Thomas is Doctoral Researcher and Diversity Practitioner at University of Kent, UK. He is also an Occupational Therapist and Public Health Specialist, Consultant to AdvanceHE in diversity and inclusion and a member of the United Kingdom Health and Care Professions Council EDI Forum.
Jason Arday is an Associate Professor in Sociology at Durham University, UK, a Visiting Research Fellow at The Ohio State University, USA and an Adjunct Professor at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. He is a Trustee of the Runnymede Trust and the British Sociological Association.
Jason Arday is an Associate Professor in Sociology at Durham University, UK, a Visiting Research Fellow at The Ohio State University, USA and an Adjunct Professor at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. He is a Trustee of the Runnymede Trust and the British Sociological Association.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Doing Equity and Diversity for Success in Higher Education
Book Subtitle: Redressing Structural Inequalities in the Academy
Editors: Dave S. P. Thomas, Jason Arday
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Race, Inequality and Social Justice in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65668-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65667-6Published: 19 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65670-6Published: 20 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65668-3Published: 18 June 2021
Series ISSN: 2524-633X
Series E-ISSN: 2524-6348
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 352
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, Sociology of Education, Ethnicity in Education, Sociology of Education, Diversity Management/Women in Business