Reframing Diversity and Inclusive Leadership

Seth N. Asumah is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, Founding Chair and Professor of Africana Studies, and Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Cortland. As Founding Director of the Summer Institute for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice (SIDEISJ) at SUNY Cortland, Asumah co-facilitates DEI and inclusive leadership institutes with Nagel in the United States, Europe, and Africa. Mechthild Nagel is Professor of Philosophy and Affiliated Professor of Africana Studies. She is also Director of the Center for Ethics, Peace and Social Justice at SUNY Cortland. Together they have coedited Diversity, Social Justice, and Inclusive Excellence: Transdisciplinary and Global Perspectives, also published by SUNY Press.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Elizabeth Davis-Russell
Preface
Introduction: Providing a Context for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Leadership in the American Polity and in a Culture of Discontent

Part 1. How Do Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Matter Today?

1. Diversity Studies and Managing Differences: Unpacking SUNY Cortland’s Case and National Trends

2. The Illusion of Inclusion: Risk Management’s Co-optation of Diversity and Inclusion Leadership at Whitehill University

3. New Trends in Diversity Leadership and Inclusive Excellence

4. Risk Management, Hegemony, and the Pitfalls of Diversity within the Academy

Part 2. Anti-oppression Traditions and Oppressive Practices: Searching for Interlocking Systems

5. Race, Questioning Immigrant Bodies, and Heteropatriarchal Masculinity: Rethinking the Obama Presidency

6. The Politics of Racial Exclusion in the Era of Inclusion: Seeing More Than an African Immigrant in US Immigration Policy

7. Black Lives Matter, All Lives Matter?

8. The Color of COVID-19 and the Knee-Lynching of George Floyd: Interrogating Systemic Racism and Inclusive Leadership

9. Me Too, Me Two, and Misogynoir

10. An American Kaleidoscope: Rethinking Diversity and Inclusion Leadership through the Prism of Gender and Race

Part 3. Visions/Second Sight

11. Racial Identity, the Danger of Being Too Comfortable, and Antiracist Decision/ Policy-Making: Rethinking Whiteness

12. Ubuntu Ethics: I Am Because We Are

Conclusion: Sustaining an Inclusive Community of Learners—Recognition, Reconciliation, Accountability, and the Pedagogy of Healing
References
Index