Reparative Universities av Ariana Gonzalez Stokas

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<p><b>A timely investigation of why diversity alone is insufficient in higher education and how universities can use reparative actions to become anti-racist institutions.</b></p><p>As institutions increasingly reckon with histories entangled with slavery and Indigenous dispossession, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts occupy a central role in the strategy and resources of higher education. Yet reparation is rarely offered as a viable strategy for institutional transformation. In <i>Reparative Universities, </i>Ariana Gonz¿z Stokas undertakes a critical and decolonial analysis of DEI work, linking contemporary practices of diversity to longer colonial histories. Gonz¿z Stokas argues that diversity is an insufficient concept for efforts concerned with anti-oppression, anti-racism, equity, and decolonization. Given its historical ties to colonialism, can higher education foster reconciliation and healing?</p><p>Reparation is offered as a pathway toward untangling higher educa