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Diversity Resistance in Organizations

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Diversity Resistance in Organizations

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Diversity Resistance in Organizations book

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Diversity Resistance in Organizations book

ByKecia M. Thomas
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2020
eBook Published 15 April 2020
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003026907
Pages 222
eBook ISBN 9781003026907
Subjects Behavioral Sciences, Economics, Finance, Business & Industry
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Thomas, K.M. (2020). Diversity Resistance in Organizations (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003026907

ABSTRACT

This new volume revisits diversity resistance ten years later, examining the fluidity of diversity resistance in workplaces. Top-notch contributors provide insight about the motivations to resist diversity and inclusion as well as offer strategies for preventing and derailing diversity resistance and enhancing inclusion in organizations.

The current edition broadens the conversation about diversity resistance by demonstrating methods of counter-resistance and how diversity resistance manifests in everyday lives, as well as how it presents itself and limits the careers and lives of various stigmatized groups. Chapters also consider why, despite the often expressed value for diversity and inclusion, diversity resistance continues to persist. Contributors demonstrate the persistence of diversity resistance across time, context, and for a variety of targets.  For example, this volume addresses topics as well as marginalized groups not previously discussed in the first edition such as intersectionality, workers living with mental illness, gender identity, trans workers, and the systemic resistance experienced by gay couples.

This volume will be of interest to scholars and practitioners as well as minoritized workers. It will function as a framework for understanding the continuum of exclusion, harassment and discrimination that occurs within organizational settings and the impact upon individual and organizational performance. Practitioners will find examples and cases for how diversity resistance manifests, but more importantly strategies and recommendations for derailing diversity resistance and enhancing inclusion.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|20 pages

Diversity Performance, Social Surveillance and Rescinding Human Rights

Understanding the Health Outcomes of Diversity Resistance
ByKecia M. Thomas, Justin A. Lavner, Zoe E. Johnston, Cambrilyn Scofield

chapter 2|13 pages

Unapologetic Authentic Early Career Black Women

Challenging the Dominant Narrative
ByDanielle D. Dickens, Veronica Y. Womack

chapter 3|24 pages

Sexuality Blindness

A New Frontier of Diversity Resistance
ByOscar Holmes

chapter 4|19 pages

Diversity Resistance and Gender Identity

How Far Have We Come and Where Do We Still Need to Go?
ByKatina Sawyer, Christian Thoroughgood

chapter 5|26 pages

Stigma as Diversity Resistance to Employees with Mental Illness

ByKayla Follmer, Kisha Jones

chapter 6|20 pages

Diversity Resistance Redux

The Nature and Implications of Dominant Group Threat for Diversity And Inclusion
ByVictoria C. Plaut, Celina A. Romano, Kyneshawau Hurd, Emily Goldstein

chapter 7|26 pages

The Response to Social Justice Issues in Organizations as a Form of Diversity Resistance

ByEnrica N. Ruggs, Karoline M. Summerville, Christopher K. Marshburn

chapter 8|16 pages

Artful Avoidance

Initial Considerations for Measuring Diversity Resistance in Cultural Organizations
ByBrea M. Heidelberg

chapter 9|13 pages

The Dance of Inclusion

New Ways of Moving With Resistance
ByPlácida V. Gallegos, Ilene C. Wasserman, Bernardo M. Ferdman

chapter 10|17 pages

African-American Professionals in Public Relations and the Greater Impacts

ByCandace P. Parrish, Janice Z. Gassam
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