love the account of the "emplotment" of diversity in narratives
of institutional containment.
Chandra Mohanty has written about this-- the diversity industry
The newspaper here had an interesting tidbit today-- Eldridge
Cleaver is now working as a "diversity consultant"
Suzanne de Castell and I also published a piece in Ed
Theory called "En/gendering Equity:--blah blah" which
shows how equity agendas actually get played out in
institutional contexts based on our own experiences.
This piece and another are reprinted in our book, Radical
In<ter>ventions published by SUNY Press in 1997.
In this collection of essays a diverse array of folks write about
"diversity" and identity and politics in institutional
contexts.
It's a good read. You can check out the authors and chapter
titles at www.amazon.com
isbn: 0-7914-3562-8
Mary
Mary Bryson, Associate Professor, Education/UBC
Principal Co-Investigator: GenTech Project
http://www.educ.sfu.ca/gentech/index.htm