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Equity and Inclusion through Policy and Practice
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Description
Under the hubris of equity and inclusion, Black, Indigenous and other employees and students of color (BIPoC) enter historically white institutions of education where they find white supremacy infused into the institutions' policies and colleagues' practices – in hiring, service demands on faculty of color, faculty evaluations, tenure decisions, student grievance processes, speech and deliberation, accent-based discrimination, faculty contracts, etc. BIPoC find themselves simultaneously subject to policies and practices steeped in white supremacy and race-lighted by a façade of equality. Despite their institutions' avowed commitment to equity and inclusion, white and structurally white employees apply equality frameworks to enact white supremacist policies and practices, and to make decisions that negatively affect the mental and physical health, wellbeing and progress of BIPoC in U.S. higher education. In Equity and Inclusion through Policy and Practice, Farhana Loonat exposes white liberals' opportunism and hypocrisy in the equity and inclusion brigade, unpack the consequences of the diversity, equity, inclusion illusion on BIPoC, and provide equitable solutions to the historical inequities and exclusion of BIPoC on U.S. college campuses. This book is important for scholars interested in equity and inclusion in education, inclusive pedagogy, critical race theory, whiteness studies, the politics of race and gender, ethnic studies, educational leadership and human and organizational development.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Illusion
Chapter 2: White Supremacist Student Grievance Processes
Chapter 3: In the Age of Trump: Promoting Equity over Equality in Speech
Chapter 4: Accent-Based Discrimination in U.S. Higher Education
Chapter 5: White Supremacist Faculty Contracts
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
Product details

Published | Jan 08 2026 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 224 |
ISBN | 9798216266587 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Illustrations | 1 b/w |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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"A must-read for anyone interested in the recent attacks on “DEI” in higher education, Equity and Inclusion through Policy and Practice is a guidebook to transform “DEI” into meaningful equity and inclusion. Using overwhelming evidence and her personal experiences of daily white supremacy and privilege, Loonat shows us how policies that seem unrelated to equity and inclusion-such as campus speech policies or faculty contracts-are powerful instruments of white supremacy. We all have so much to learn from this book."
Alisa Kessel, University of Puget Sound