TY - JOUR
T1 - Race and Diversity
T2 - What Have We Learned?
AU - Winders, Jamie
AU - Schein, Richard
PY - 2014/4
Y1 - 2014/4
N2 - This article briefly examines geographic scholarship on race and diversity to enumerate how such work can contribute to the Addressing Locally-tailored Information Infrastructure and Geoscience Needs for Enhancing Diversity (ALIGNED) project's goal of creating a more diverse discipline and more diverse departments. Our review presents two arguments. First, diversity, as an object of analysis and desired institutional characteristic, is dynamic, unstable, and, above all, historically and geographically contingent. Studies of diversity, and efforts to create it, must begin from this observation. Second, we argue for diverse methodological and epistemological approaches but ones that are linked through a shared commitment to examining race and racism, diversity and inequalities, simultaneously.
AB - This article briefly examines geographic scholarship on race and diversity to enumerate how such work can contribute to the Addressing Locally-tailored Information Infrastructure and Geoscience Needs for Enhancing Diversity (ALIGNED) project's goal of creating a more diverse discipline and more diverse departments. Our review presents two arguments. First, diversity, as an object of analysis and desired institutional characteristic, is dynamic, unstable, and, above all, historically and geographically contingent. Studies of diversity, and efforts to create it, must begin from this observation. Second, we argue for diverse methodological and epistemological approaches but ones that are linked through a shared commitment to examining race and racism, diversity and inequalities, simultaneously.
KW - American geography
KW - diversity
KW - methods
KW - race
KW - racism
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U2 - 10.1080/00330124.2012.735941
DO - 10.1080/00330124.2012.735941
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84897578090
SN - 0033-0124
VL - 66
SP - 221
EP - 229
JO - Professional Geographer
JF - Professional Geographer
IS - 2
ER -