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D I V E R S I T Y A N D

I N C L U S I O N

Dr Helena Liu

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Week 3 — Re-Radicalising Diversity and Inclusion

Photograph of the Civil Rights March on Washington, 28th August, 1963 courtesy of the National Archives.

For whom do we do diversity and for what

purpose? Decolonising diversity requires

interrogating how power operates in and

through diversity management. The

systems of power that can be reinforced

through diversity practices include

patriarchy, heteronormativity and white

supremacy.

REVIEW

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUIZ REVIEW

AGENDA Week 5

• Queering organisations with Helen Taylor

• Anti-racist feminist futures

• Final Reflexive Practice Journal task

G U E S T S E M I N A R W I T H H E L E N T AY L O R

S E C T I O N

1 0 M I N S B R E A K S E C T I O N

A N T I - R A C I S T F E M I N I S T F U T U R E S

S E C T I O N

Feminism — or really, feminisms — is both a

theoretical field and a political practice

aimed at ending the subordination of

women.

FEMINISM

FEMINISMS Feminism is far from a unitary

movement. Rather, it is often

distinguished through its political

positions including:

1. Liberal feminisms;

2. Marxist feminisms;

3. Poststructuralist and

postmodernist feminisms;

4. Anti-racist and decolonial

feminisms; and

5. Queer theory.

WARNING: There are inherent

limitations in the use of

classifications. Namely, they

suggest a temporal and special

fixedness in each classification. It’s

therefore important to remember

that feminism is also a process,

with each category identified

being revised and reshaped.

Anti-racism is a theoretical field and a

political practice aimed at ending the

subordination of people of colour. Like

feminist movements, it comprises diverse

groups of people struggling to ameliorate

conditions for their community.

ANTI-RACISM

Justice is what love looks like in public

— Cornel West“

ANTI-RACISM Anti-racism challenges white supremacy through

scholarship and activism that encourages love for

people of colour; especially, for people of colour to

learn to love ourselves.

This resistance affects organisations because unless

we love people of colour, we are not going to think of

them as capable, reliable, intelligent, creative, etc.

(Bambara, 1989; Yancy, 2018)

ALLYSHIP PRIVILEGE AND BLAME One of the privileges of whiteness is not having to acknowledge race

and thus believe that organisations and societies are meritocratic.

Under neoliberalism, we often insist that individuals wholly

responsible for their destinies. When we disconnect from the painful

realities of racism, structural disadvantages can be blamed on

people of colour themselves who are castigated for ‘playing the race

card’ and not working hard enough to achieve success for

themselves (DiAngelo, 2018).

Although the temptation can be strong to flee from discomfort,

education scholar Barbara Applebaum (2017) believes discomfort

can bear the possibility for personal and social transformation.

NOT A LABEL, BUT AN ONGOING PROCESS Allyship cannot be achieved through quick fixes. It requires ongoing

critical self-reflection and analysis to resist the white supremacy that

is often taken-for-granted and normalised (see Swan, 2017).

REDOING WHITENESS Redoing whiteness requires interrogating everyday racist

practices. For example, we can name white power where it

exists but remains invisible, such as in conceptualisations of the

‘ideal worker’. We can open ourselves up to forming

meaningful relationships with people of colour so that diversity

becomes what we are, rather than just something we have.

(Liu, 2020; Swan, 2017)

WEEK 6 Your final Reflexive Practice Journal is due

next week, Monday 9:00am on Canvas

WHAT’S NEXT

REFERENCES Applebaum, B. (2017). Comforting discomfort as complicity: White fragility and the pursuit of invulnerability. Hypatia, 32(4), 862–875.

* Bambara, T.C. (1983). Foreword. In C. Moraga & G. E. Anzaldúa (Eds.), This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (2nd ed., pp. vi–viii). New York: Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press.

DiAngelo, R. (2018). White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

Liu, H. (2020). Redeeming Leadership: An Anti-Racist Feminist Intervention. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

* Oluo, I. (2018). “I just got called racist, what do I do now?” and “Talking is great, but what else can I do?”. In I. Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race (pp. x–238). New York: Seal Press.

Swan, E. (2017). What are white people to do? Listening, challenging ignorance, generous encounters and the ‘not yet’ as diversity research praxis. Gender, Work and Organization, 24(5), 547–563.

Yancy, G. (2018). Risking the white self. In G. Yancy, Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America (pp. 55–93). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

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