Preaching to the Choir: University Diversity Committees as Affective Communities

This paper asks, what significance do diversity committee meetings have for how diversity workers experience, make sense of, and navigate the challenges of diversity work at a large, public research university? Drawing on a sixteen‐month ethnography of diversity policy and practice, I analyze the pr...

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Diversity
Diversity training
Ethnography
Higher education
Interpersonal Relationship
Intervention
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Multicultural education
Public Colleges
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