This exciting new text examines one of the most important and yet elusive terms in higher education and society: What do we mean when we talk in a serious way about "diversity"? A distinguished group of diversity scholars explore the latest discourse on diversity and how it is reflected in research and practice.

Penny A. Pasque is professor in Educational Studies, director of the QualLab, and director of Qualitative Methods in the Office of Research, Innovation and Collaboration (ORIC), College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University. Pasque is editor of The Review of Higher Education (with Dr. Thomas F. Nelson Laird). RHE is considered one of the leading research journals in the field and is the official journal of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. Her research addresses complexities in qualitative inquiry, in/equities in higher education, and dis/connections between higher education and society. She works with qualitative methodologies as well as studies qualitative methodologies that work toward social justice and educational equity. Pasque's research has appeared in over 100 journal articles and books, including in The Journal of Higher Education, Qualitative Inquiry, The Review of Higher Education, Peabody Journal of Education, Diversity in Higher Education, Cultural StudiesCritical Methodologies, among others.Her books include Qualitative Inquiry in Higher Education Organization and Policy Research (with Lechuga, Routledge), Qualitative Inquiry for Equity in Higher Education: Methodological Innovations, Implications, and Interventions (with Carducci, Kuntz & Gildersleeve, Jossey-Bass), Critical Qualitative Inquiry: Foundations and Futures (with Cannella & Salazar Pérez, Left Coast Press), American Higher Education Leadership and Policy: Critical Issues and the Public Good (Palgrave Macmillan), Empowering Women in Higher Education and Student Affairs (with Nicholson, Stylus), Transforming Understandings of Diversity in Higher Education (with Ortega, Burkhardt, & Ting, Stylus) and Engaged Research and Practice (with Overton & Burkhardt, Stylus).Currently, she's editor for the "critical & social justice" section of the upcoming Routledge Encyclopedia (Salvo & Ulmer, eds.), writing a chapter / reviewing for a Handbook on Critical Appr

Foreword by Phillip J. Bowman Acknowledgments Introduction. Transforming Understandings of Diversity in Higher Education. History and Context John C. Burkhardt, Christina Morton, Marie P. Ting, Penny A. Pasque, and Noe Ortega 1. Color-Blind Ideology and the Disconnected Power-Analysis Frame Considerations for Historically Black Colleges and Universities' Diversification-Uma M. Jayakumar and Annie S. Adamian 2. An Interview With Uma M. Jayakumar. Social Agency and the Power of Resistance-Diane M. Back 3. A Theory of Equity. A Social and Legal Analysis of College Access for Low-Income Students-Jarrett T. Gupton and Karen Miksch 4. An Interview With Jarrett T. Gupton. The Value of Uncertainty and the Need for Nuance-Sheela Linstrum 5. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Students on Campus. Fostering Inclusion Through Research, Policy, and Practice-Michael R. Woodford, Jessica Joslin, and Kristen A. Renn 6. An Interview With Michael R. Woodford. Bringing Invisible Communities to Light. Disciplinary Norms, Collaboration, and the Quest for Legitimacy-Timothy Hickey-LeClair 7. Racially and Socioeconomically Diverse Students' Pathways to College. An Exploration of Latin@ Students-Angela M. Locks, Dawn Person, Michelle Cuellar, Jeanette Maduena, and Melba Schneider Castro 8. An Interview With Angela M. Locks. Understanding the Complexities of the College-Going Process-James M. Ellis 9. Architecture of Diversity. Using the Lens and Language of Space to Examine Racialized Experiences of Students of Color on College Campuses-Michelle Samura 10. An Interview With Michelle Samura. How the "Blue Wall" Changes Our Discourses on Race in Higher Education. Stepping Out of the Comfort Zone and Seeing Things in a Different Light-Jimin Kwon 11. Including Disability in the Discourse. Extending and Advancing the Definition of Diversity in Higher Education-Allison Lombardi and Adam Lalor 12. An Interview With Allison Lombardi. Including Disability in the Discourse-Lloyd Edward Shelton 13. The Impact of Media Imagery on Academic Identity Development for Black Male Student Athletes-LaVar J. Charleston and Jerlando F. L. Jackson 14. An Interview With Jerlando F. L. Jackson. An Instrumental Diversity Researcher-Carly Wegner 15. Racialized and Gendered Experiences of African American Female Faculty at Public Community Colleges-Tamara Nichele Stevenson and Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher 16. An Interview With Tamara Nichele Stevenson. Surviving Racial Battle Fatigue. Cultivating Safe Spaces in Radicalized Environments-Tonya Kneff 17. Unpacking the Mandate Rhetoric of Historically Black Colleges and Universities' Diversity Discourses-Courtney Carter 18. An Interview With Courtney Carter. Unpacking the Mandate Rhetoric of Historically Black Colleges and Universities' Diversity Discourses-Demar F. Lewis IV 19. Transforming Demography, Democracy, and Discourse Through Diversity in Education and Society-John C. Burkhardt and Marie P. Ting Contributors Index