Abstract This theoretical essay explores the ways predominantly White institutions (PWIs) “speak” about race and diversity as providing frameworks through which the campus racial environment is perceived and enacted. The major premise is that diversity language functions to conceal operations of systemic racism on campuses, producing inaction and/or “cosmetic” action that does not threaten whiteness as a position of privilege and power. White racial comfort goes unchallenged, with White students, faculty, and staff not having to recognize their complicity in campus racism or engage with racism or themselves as raced persons in a critical way. Longstanding policies and practices that secure whiteness at the expense of students of color go unchanged, as diversity language easily fits within existing organizational frameworks. After examining the various psychological and organizational mechanisms by which diversity language works to maintain universities as “White spaces”, we explore alternative languages that can highlight operations of racism that diversity language conceals and thus provide more critical frameworks to guide anti-racist action. We conclude by sharing the implications of alternative languages for practitioners and institutions and suggest future paths for researching the effects of diversity language and ways to produce recognizable change. The analysis and recommendations are applied to PWIs broadly, which includes Christian colleges and universities. However, throughout the paper we integrate unique ways Christian institutions might use White Christian logic and scripture to produce the same effects of concealment and inaction.

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作为系统维护的多样性语言：在以白人为主的机构中解决种族主义问题的替代框架

摘要 本文探讨了主要是白人机构（PWI）“谈论”种族和多样性的方式，作为感知和制定校园种族环境的框架。主要前提是多样性语言的功能是掩盖校园内系统性种族主义的运作，产生不作为和/或“装扮”的行为，不会威胁到白人作为特权和权力的地位。白人种族的安慰没有受到挑战，白人学生、教职员工不必承认他们是校园种族主义的同谋，也不必以批判的方式参与种族主义或他们自己作为种族人。以牺牲有色人种学生为代价来确保白人的长期政策和做法没有改变，因为多样性语言很容易适应现有的组织框架。在研究了多样性语言使大学保持“空白”的各种心理和组织机制之后，我们探索了可以突出多样性语言隐藏的种族主义运作的替代语言，从而提供更重要的框架来指导反种族主义行动。最后，我们分享了替代语言对从业者和机构的影响，并提出了研究多样性语言影响的未来路径以及产生可识别变化的方法。分析和建议广泛应用于 PWI，包括基督教学院和大学。然而，在整篇论文中，我们整合了基督教机构可能使用白人基督教逻辑和圣经的独特方式来产生隐藏和不作为的相同效果。