Equity and Inclusion through Policy and Practice

Under the hubris of equity and inclusion, Black, Indigenous and other employees and students of color (BIPoC) enter historically white institutions of education where they find white supremacy infused into the institutions'' policies and colleagues'' practices - in hiring, service demands on faculty of color, faculty evaluations, tenure decisions, student grievance processes, speech and deliberation, accent-based discrimination, faculty contracts, etc. BIPoC find themselves simultaneously subject to policies and practices steeped in white supremacy and race-lighted by a facade of equality. Despite their institutions'' avowed commitment to equity and inclusion, white and structurally white employees apply equality frameworks to enact white supremacist policies and practices, and to make decisions that negatively affect the mental and physical health, wellbeing and progress of BIPoC in U.S. higher education. In Equity and Inclusion through Policy and Practice , Farhana Loonat exposes white liberals'' opportunism and hypocrisy in the equity and inclusion brigade, unpack the consequences of the diversity, equity, inclusion illusion on BIPoC, and provide equitable solutions to the historical inequities and exclusion of BIPoC on U.S. college campuses. This book is important for scholars interested in equity and inclusion in education, inclusive pedagogy, critical race theory, whiteness studies, the politics of race and gender, ethnic studies, educational leadership and human and organizational development.>

About the author

Farhana Loonat is a tenured faculty member in Political Science and Philosophy at Skagit Valley College.

Product details

• Authors: Farhana Loonat
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 08.01.2026
• EAN: 9781666916096
• ISBN: 978-1-66691-609-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, EDUCATION / Administration / Higher, Educational administration and organization, Gender studies: women, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Gender studies: women and girls, Higher education, tertiary education, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Educational strategies and policy, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism