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The New Heresy and the Modern Inquisition
In this paper, I look critically at a new trend on college campuses regarding the banning of certain words, especially the biggest racial taboo word in the USA. I contend that these new bans impede the rise of a dialogic, democratic, and pluralistic temperament, ultimately promoting and legitimizing violence as good and necessary.
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Feminists Betraying Feminism to Restrict Faculty–Student Romances
In this brief commentary I add a new set of criticisms to the rise of stricter bans against consensual relationships between faculty and students. Although there are already compelling criticisms of these bans, the new stricter bans should be met with a new set of criticisms.
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Reimagining Diversity: Moving from A Multicultural Perspective to An Ecological Perspective
In this article, I contend that the multicultural view of diversity found in management diversity literature and diversity training programs diminishes our understanding of diversity. It reduces diversity to differences and assumes that the goal should be including, bridging, accommodating, and managing these supposed differences. Diversity is psychologized, depoliticized, and biopoliticized. It becomes merely a means to an end. The end being superior organizational outcomes in terms of utility and functionality. I contend that an ecological perspective makes for a more constructive and expansive view of human diversity. I discuss the contours of this emergent perspective and the many ways in which it expands our understanding of human diversity. Ultimately, I contend looking at diversity from an ecological perspective makes for a richer understanding of the relationship between diversity and the human experience.
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When Race and Policy Collide
Examining actual policy to identify the facts, this book exposes how racially charged political and legal debates over immigration reform in the United States continue to inform our immigration policy. Immigration reform policies continue to influence domains like housing ordinances, official language laws, mass deportation, and bilingual education, amongst many other topics. In this work, authors Donathan Brown and Amardo Rodriguez demonstrate how immigration policies belie simplistic conversations pertaining to border control. Their focus is on actual policy as opposed to mere headlines and \"talking points, \" as it is policy and the debates that it produces that inform the headlines and subsequently incite controversy and heated arguments. Each chapter of the book addresses both policies and the fallout they produce to clearly articulate how such policies usurp fact with fiction, producing residual messages that equate \"diversity\" with destroying our social and political order. This accessible book provides high school, college, and graduate-level students insight into the laws and lawsuits stemming from current legislation, an understanding of the peculiar racial dimensions intertwined in these policies and debates, as well as comprehension of immigration reform against the grander backdrop of the growing Latino demographic in the United States. The authors argue that the varying degrees of immigration reform passed by state legislatures throughout the country are based on thinking that ignores the sociopolitical and cultural realities of modern-day America and continue to rely less on facts and more on fear, causing greater deep-seated paranoia, distrust, and resentment within our nation.
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Redefining our Understanding of Narrative
This paper is born out of my concern about the increasing use of narrative as merely a different methodology. I argue that narrative as methodology ultimately depoliticizes the potentiality of narratives. Narrative simply becomes one of the many methods that belong to qualitative inquiry. We generally discuss narrative as story-telling. We also focus on doing good narrative analysis. In this paper I recast in narrative in language of cosmology so as to highlight the libratory potentiality that narrative affords persons who strive for a new and different world. I discuss narrative in terms of being in the world. I also unpack the implications that attend to this emergent way of understanding narrative for qualitative inquiry. The paper ends with a discussion of how our narrativeness complements a world that is increasingly seen as complex and quantum.
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The Discursive Limits of Modern Immigration Debates
The disconnect between reality and perception found in immigration debates in the U.S. captures what Richard Hofstadter describes as a paranoid style of politics. This paper looks at how this paranoid politics creates and sustains a fear of immigrants as a pernicious threat to the stability and continuity of many of our prized social and political institutions by presumably refusing to culturally and linguistically assimilate. The paranoid style aptly describes the politics that surround the push for new immigration laws in many states across the U.S., thereby serving as a valuable framework in helping us to understand the rhetorical and communicational devices that frame these legislative initiatives, as well as the pathology.
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