Occupying the academy : just how important is diversity work in higher education? / edited by Christine Clark, Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner, and Mark Brimhall-Vargas.

In English with two chapters in Spanish.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-238) and index.

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Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- The Permanence of Diversity -- La Permanencia de la Diversidad -- Occupying Academia, Reaffirming Diversity -- Stories from the Chief Diversity Officer Frontlines -- Case 1: Extra, Extra, Read All About It! -- Case 2: Balancing Act -- Case 3: Deconstructing Hope -- Case 4: Transforming Lives and Communities -- Case 5: Southern Predominantly White Institutions, Targeted Students, and the Intersectionality of Identity -- Stories from the Mid-Level Administrator Frontlines -- Case 6: The Myth of Institutionalizing Diversity -- Case 7: Swimming up Mainstream -- Case 8: The Search for Questions and Tellings of Silenced Students -- Case 9: The Evolution of a Campus -- Case 10: The Unmet Promise -- Stories from the Faculty Frontlines -- Case 11: "Just (Don't) Do It!" -- Case 12: Déjà Vu -- Case 13: "Isn't Affirmative Action Illegal?" -- Case 14: Equity at the Fringes -- Case 15: On the Battlefield for Social Justice in the Education of Teachers -- So What? Who Cares? And What's Our Point about Diversity? -- Carta al lector -- An Open Letter -- Afterword -- References -- About the Editors and Contributors.

This volume uses a critical theory framework to document, as institutional case studies, the experiences of equity/diversity scholar-practitioners in higher education across the United States in their efforts to negotiate, survive, and thrive in their roles and related work.

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