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Equity and Inclusion through Policy and Practice

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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

Introduction
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

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 08 Jan 2026
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 224
ISBN 9798216266587
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 1 b/w
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Farhana Loonat

Farhana Loonat is a tenured faculty member in Poli…

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