...Diversity Work This chapter reflects on diversity work as the effort to transform institutions by opening them up to populations that have historically been excluded from them. Drawing on interviews with diversity practitioners, it considers how practitioners keep coming up against brick...

... This chapter reflects on diversity work as the effort to transform institutions by opening them up to populations that have historically been excluded from them. Drawing on interviews with diversity practitioners, it considers how practitioners keep coming up against brick walls even after...

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... the most capacious. Reading across diversity work (Sarah Ahmed) in university settings, to the kinds of species-focused orientations that move us into the animal's response to us (Jacques Derrida), the chapter attempts to undermine diversity as a goal for life as we know it. It ends with a contemplation...

... This chapter explores diversity work in another sense: the work you do when you do not quite inhabit the norms of an organization. It begins by reflecting on how some become suspicious or questionable, often by being asked, “Where are you from?,” which is how some bodies become strangers...

... This chapter returns to the example of the brick wall introduced in chapter 4 and asks what it means to think of diversity work as a “banging your head against a brick wall job.” It suggests that the wall is more than a metaphor and refers to the processes whereby histories become concrete, how...

... The speeches in this chapter showcase the range of Johnnetta Betsch Cole's work in inspiring change around diversity, equity, and inclusion in academia, philanthropy, museums, and even corporate America. In her 2010 speech to Goldman Sachs, she outlines the moral and business case for diversity...

...: both forms of popular protest brought together diverse working people who overcame their differences, built alliances, and rattled the chains of power. Together with chapter 1, this chapter lays out the connections that made and remade class relationships and previews what was lost in subsequent years...

... to work toward greater diversity in staff, exhibitions, educational programs, and visitors. And in her 2012 speech at Clark Atlanta University, she brings attention to the works of African American art housed at HBCUs like Hampton, Clark Atlanta, Fisk, Lincoln, and Howard universities, interrogating...

... of “in-culture” and “in-language” message creation by exploring a process Asian American advertising executives called “transcreation,” the work of adapting “general market” or mainstream advertising’s brand identities for Asian American audiences. It also examines how ad executives use concepts of narrative...

... This thematic chapter explores several bodies of Heap of Birds’s text-based artworks, including gallery installations, temporary public art, drawings, and prints. These diverse artworks are described in terms of the artist’s critique of the uses of language as a weapon and tool of assimilation...

... Attending to the diverse kinds of activities produced and managed by Asha, a community service organization, this chapter attends to how the organization attempts to manage the different kinds of political relationships it is entangled in. Asha’s leaders are urban specialists...

... diversity and conflict within the black collective, working to facilitate a sense of black community despite difference. Through its producer, Ellis Haizlip, Soul! expressed a belief in the power of black performance to sustain this community in the face of ongoing political, social, and spiritual crisis...

... “Chapter 9: The Art of Belonging” accounts for Manifesta's investment in the city of Rotterdam as the formerly industrial city worked to forge a new identity in an era of economic globalization. It draws from close analysis of materials produced by local art collective NEsTWORK in response...

... This chapter presents the diverse use cases for money. “Use case” is a term taken from the technology industry, where scenarios are played out of how a piece of equipment or software might actually work once unpredictable humans are added to the mix. This chapter presents the use cases of money...

... and worldly agencies of diverse kinds in the making of cinema and other creative artifacts; the value of ethnographic field method in grasping creation as an open-ended process of emergence; the relationship between content and form, experience and expression, in the experimental modes of narration...

... This essay examines the history and impact of the long-running traveling exhibition 30 Americans, which has been seen in over a dozen different cities since it was conceived in 2008. Curated from the extensive holdings of contemporary art owned by the Rubell family, the show includes works...