Who Pays for Diversity?
Oneya Fennell Okuwobi
University of California Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
How diversity initiatives harm employees of color by turning them into workplace commodities.
Diversity programs are under attack. Should those interested in racial justice fight to keep them, or might there be another way forward?
Who Pays for Diversity? reveals the costs that employees of color pay under current programs by having their racial identities commodified to benefit white people and institutions. Oneya Fennell Okuwobi proposes fresh and thoughtful ways to reorient these initiatives, move beyond tokenism, and authentically center marginalized employees.
Drawing on accounts of employees from across the workplace spectrum, from corporations to churches to universities,
Who Pays for Diversity? details how the optics of diversity programs undermine employees' competence while diminishing their well-being and workplace productivity. Okuwobi argues that diversity programs have been a costly detour on the path to racial justice, and getting back on track requires solutions that provide equity, dignity, and agency to all employees, instead of defending the status quo.
Kundenbewertungen
Critique of DEI programs, Race and inequality in the workplace, Institutional racism, burnout and DEI programs, centering people of color, flaws in DEIA practices, impact on people of color, DEI programs and white supremacy, Asian, commodification of racial identities, challenges of diversity programs, power dynamics, racial equality in institutions, corporate control, rethinking initiatives, Black, Latinx, new approaches to racial equity, DEIJ initiatives and racial equity