It’s About Moral, Not Market, Values
Excerpt:
As the only African-American female faculty member on the campus, clearly I represented what the college meant by “diversity.” But when I asked questions designed to prompt thinking about the relationship between the college’s history and mission and the relatively homogeneous state of its faculty and student population, I was met with blank stares.
The day the hometown newspaper ran an interview with me, it also ran an item inviting everyone out to a local high school’s slave auction. When I pointed out the painful irony to colleagues, they were sympathetic but not moved to action. Diversity, it seems, didn’t mean being committed to a critical analysis of historical systems of oppression and how institutions continue to perpetuate discrimination and privilege. Diversity meant hiring “one of each.”
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