TY - JOUR
T1 - Race and Diversity
T2 - What Have We Learned?
AU - Winders, Jamie
AU - Schein, Richard
N1 - Funding Information:
Este artículo examina brevemente el enfoque de la geografía académica sobre raza y diversidad para puntualizar la manera como tal trabajo pueda contribuir al objetivo del proyecto sobre Infraestructura de la Información con Base Local y las Necesidades en Geociencia para Fortalecer la Diversidad (ALIGNED, por su acrónimo inglés), para crear una más diversa disciplina y departamentos más diversos. Nuestra revisión presenta dos argumentos: Primero, la diversidad, como un objeto de análisis y deseable característica institucional, es dinámica, inestable y, sobre todo, histórica y geográficamente contingente. Los estudios de diversidad, y los esfuerzos para crearla, deben partir de esta observación. Segundo, abogamos por enfoques metodológicos y epistemológicos diversos, pero que vayan ligados a un compromiso compartido de examinar raza y racismo, diversidad y desigualdades, simultáneamente. Palabras clave: geografía norteamericana, diversidad, métodos, raza, racismo.
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
VL - 66
SP - 221
EP - 229
JO - Professional Geographer
JF - Professional Geographer
SN - 0033-0124
IS - 2
ER -