The DEI Industrial Complex: Undermining Black Woman Leadership

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Author(s): Aysa Gray (Queens College, USA), Norka Blackman-Richards (Queens College, USA)and Selena T. Rodgers (York College, USA)
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 20
Source title: The Experiences of Black Women Diversity Practitioners in Historically White Institutions
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Tristen Brenaé Johnson (Moffitt Cancer Center, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-3564-9.ch013

Keywords: Gender and Diversity / Information Science Reference / Knowledge Management and Library Science / Organizational Development

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The DEI initiative is a multi-year project to support campuses in shifting power to create an anti-racist and equity-based space through liberatory practices, grassroots organizing, and equity-centered education. In this paper, the authors reflect on their communal work to disrupt injustice through an intersectional framework. To frame this paper, the authors first outline the historical and present impact of DEI work within academia, highlighting anti-blackness and misogynoir. Next, the authors introduce the term DEI industrial complex and provide an overview of the framework. After providing this analytic framework, the authors further explore how incidents of undermining Black leadership manifest within the academy. Asserting agency over the DEI complex, the concluding section offers essential survival tools.

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