The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy a

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE The Diversity Bargain by Natasha Warikoo Weve heard plenty from politicians and experts on affirmative action and higher education, about how universities should intervene—if at all—to ensure a diverse but deserving student population. But what about those for whom these issues matter the most? In this book, Natasha K. Warikoo deeply explores how students themselves think about merit and race at a uniquely pivotal moment: after they have just won the most competitive game of their lives and gained admittance to one of the worlds top universities. What Warikoo uncovers—talking with both white students and students of color at Harvard, Brown, and Oxford—is absolutely illuminating; and some of it is positively shocking. As she shows, many elite white students understand the value of diversity abstractly, but they ignore the real problems that racial inequality causes and that diversity programs are meant to solve. They stand in fear of being labeled a racist, but they are quick to call foul should a diversity program appear at all to hamper their own chances for advancement. The most troubling result of this ambivalence is what she calls the "diversity bargain," in which white students reluctantly agree with affirmative action as long as it benefits them by providing a diverse learning environment—racial diversity, in this way, is a commodity, a selling point on a brochure. And as Warikoo shows, universities play a big part in creating these situations. The way they talk about race on campus and the kinds of diversity programs they offer have a huge impact on student attitudes, shaping them either toward ambivalence or, in better cases, toward more productive and considerate understandings of racial difference. Ultimately, this book demonstrates just how slippery the notions of race, merit, and privilege can be. In doing so, it asks important questions not just about college admissions but what the elite students who have succeeded at it—who will be the worlds future leaders—will do with the social inequalities of the wider world. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Natasha K. Warikoo is associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the author of Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Beliefs about Meritocracy and Race American Students 2 Making Sense of Race 3 The University Influence 4 Merit and the Diversity Bargain 5 The Moral Imperatives of Diversity British Students 6 Race Frames and Merit at Oxford 7 Race, Racism, and "Playing the Race Card" at Oxford Conclusion Appendix A: Respondent Characteristics and Race Frames Appendix B: A Note on Methods Appendix C: Interview Questions Notes Index Review "The Diversity Bargain and Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities, offers a fascinating, erudite and scholarly study. . . . Through interviews with dozens of students at four elite universities in the US and UK, she explores the nuances of their perspectives on these issues [of diversity]. She also looks at different diversity-oriented programming offered at these campuses, and the varying impacts they have on the frames through which students understand their respective diversity bargains." -- "Pop Matters""If evidence were needed that tomorrows leaders do not enter college with the racial knowledge they need to guide the United States and United Kingdom through a turbulent time in our racial histories, The Diversity Bargain provides it. The book shows that white nationalism is not required to protect systems of white supremacy in ostensibly democratic societies. All it takes is leaders turning a blind eye to the pervasiveness of antidemocratic frames that quietly reinforce racial hierarchies."-- "Political Science Quarterly""[H]ow do undergraduates think about issues of race, merit, and opportunity? This is the central question in The Diversity Bargain....Through these interviews, Warikoo builds a typology for how students perceive race (termed race frames) and examines how these frameworks vary across the demographic groups of interviewed students. These frames are some of the most compelling aspects of this book, demonstrating the variety and complexity of students perceptions surrounding race at highly selective universities." -- "Administrative Science Quarterly""[Warikoo] artfully incorporates research that exhibits the structural inequalities that exist for racial and ethnic minorities throughout her book....The Diversity Bargain offers a fresh and incisive perspective on one of the most heated and enduring social justice issues of the twenty-first-century."-- "Teachers College Record""Elite university students have the prospect to be future leaders and to shape policy in our global society. As Natasha Warikoo notes in The Diversity Bargain, these students ideas about race and meritocracy provide us with glimpses into the future as well as reminders of ongoing debates around affirmative action. Drawing upon interviews with students from Brown, Harvard, and Oxford, the author details their interconnected race frames--interpretive ideas about the role of race in elite universities and society more broadly--and the prevalence of color blindness, a common frame and ideology surrendering race and racism to irrelevancy in the present day."-- "American Journal of Sociology""Highlights a persistent question facing diversity efforts in higher education: how do universities make the case for diversity in the highly selective, competitive, and rigorous environments that define them as elite institutions? . . . Many institutions have embedded the diversity bargain in their own marketing for multicultural programming. The author provocatively laments that by adopting such rhetoric, universities--and the students that they influence--may limit their ability to make real social change." -- "Publishers Weekly""Rather than evaluating the implementation or effects of affirmative action, Warikoo interrogates what it does: how does affirmative action in admissions factor into elites understandings of race and merit? The book is a timely and crucial intervention, given the recent course of affirmative action politics and the scholarly knowledge we have accumulated to date."-- "Contemporary Sociology""Students at elite universities may see themselves as winners, but even they at times need to rationalize their elite status. That Warikoo shows us how a concept of diversity is recruited into a meritocratic justification is The Diversity Bargains main contribution to higher education studies."-- "Journal of College Student Retention""The Diversity Bargain illuminates just how much diversity has been commodified particularly among the elite, for whom good taste entails an eclectic palate." --Rose Courteau "Atlantic" Review Quote "Warikoos investigation is rooted in a long sociological tradition of understanding the culture of privilege among "power elites." While more attention has been given as of late to the racial attitudes and beliefs of members of nonelite groups, understanding how college students at institutions, such as Harvard, Brown, Oxford, and Cambridge, articulate an understanding about race is important precisely because it is these young people who are most likely to end up in positions of power. Warikoo makes a cogent point when she insists that elite colleges and universities have symbolic meaning, influencing the policies and practices of other institutions." Details ISBN022640014X Short Title DIVERSITY BARGAIN Pages 320 Language English ISBN-10 022640014X ISBN-13 9780226400143 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2016 Imprint University of Chicago Press Subtitle And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2016-11-15 UK Release Date 2016-11-15 AU Release Date 2016-11-15 NZ Release Date 2016-11-15 US Release Date 2016-11-15 Author Natasha Warikoo Publisher The University of Chicago Press DEWEY 378.198 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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