This interdisciplinary essay collection explores how the rhetoric of social justice can become a reality in the United States by interrogating matters of inclusion, diversity, equity, and access in a variety of contexts ranging from the Black Lives Matter movement and children's literature to the contemporary workplace and university.
Emily Allen Williams is Vice President and Dean of Academic Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh.
Introduction: Finding Our Way Together: Discussions on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access
Emily Allen Williams, Editor
Part 1: Interrogations of Blackness, Whiteness, Racism, and Beyond: Historical and 21st Century Considerations
Chapter One: Black Lives Matter: Dismantling Racism and Rewriting History in the Confederate Monuments
Nancy Wellington Bookhart
Chapter Two: The Black Lives Matter Movement and Anglophone African Caribbean Impact: Transposition of the Caribbean Experience in the Complexities of the African American Context
Sharon Albert Honore
Chapter Three: The New Back to Africa Movement: The Black Diaspora Seeking Opportunity and Refuge in the Motherland
Karl Ellis Johnson
Part 2: Excluded or Included? African American, Non-Conformist, and Transgender
Chapter Four: (Re)Defining Hi-stories: Conducting and Preserving Oral Histories in Africana Studies
Catherine L. Adams
Chapter Five: Did You Bring Me Here to Be Like You? Philosophizing About Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Anthony Sean Neal
Chapter Six: Missing the Whole Picture: A Content Analysis of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Characters in Children's Literature
Eden-Reneé Hayes and Saisha Manan
Chapter Seven: Organizational Culture: Pivoting on DEI
Willette Neal
Chapter Eight: Approaching Diversity, Equity, and Race Work in 21st Century America
Gwendolyn VanSant
Part 3: Challenging 21st Century Notions of Diversity on College and University Campuses
Chapter Nine: Black Lives Matter on Campus: Choreographing Protest
Peter A. Campbell
Chapter Ten: Black Maleness at a Public Regional University
Mark Wagner and Katherine L. Cleary
Chapter Eleven: Meta-Reflections: Teaching Black Psychology at a Predominately White Undergraduate Institution
Sandra Virginia Gonsalves-Domond
Chapter Twelve: The Case for Inclusive Instructional Design
Samantha Calamari
Index
About the Contributors