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What does diversity mean in contemporary America, and what are the effects of efforts to support it? The author explores the complicated, contradictory, and even troubling meanings and uses of diversity as it is invoked by different groups for different, often symbolic ends.

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"In this important book Berrey shows how the demands for inclusion of the racially oppressed during the Civil Rights Era were translated in universities, communities, and corporations into practices to keep the powerful in control. Berrey has deconstructed the symbolic politics of diversity and helped us understand the fundamental importance of substantive rather than formal diversity." (Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University)

The Enigma of Diversity

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/05/2015
      ISBN13: 9780226246239, 978-0226246239
      ISBN10: 022624623X
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      Book Synopsis
      What does diversity mean in contemporary America, and what are the effects of efforts to support it? The author explores the complicated, contradictory, and even troubling meanings and uses of diversity as it is invoked by different groups for different, often symbolic ends.

      Trade Review
      "In this important book Berrey shows how the demands for inclusion of the racially oppressed during the Civil Rights Era were translated in universities, communities, and corporations into practices to keep the powerful in control. Berrey has deconstructed the symbolic politics of diversity and helped us understand the fundamental importance of substantive rather than formal diversity." (Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University)

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