ABSTRACT

The Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) position has a unique responsibility to drive diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts across college campuses, however, it does not award individuals serving in these roles an exemption from racial ostracism. In this study, the author investigates how anti-blackness prevents African-American CDOs from fulfilling the most crucial function of the position – coalition building – which is the principal driver of social movement and change in higher education. Findings revealed anti-blackness to produce racial constraints that force African-American CDOs to deprioritize strategic imperatives and instead redistribute time, effort, and focus toward addressing the racialization of their identities. Racial constraints were found to be race-based limitations that inhibit effectiveness of the CDO role and situate African-American CDOs to suffer through the exact same experiences they are hired to fix.

摘要

首席多元化官 (CDO) 职位负有推动大学校园多元化、公平和包容性努力的独特责任，但是，它并不授予担任这些职位的个人免受种族排斥的豁免。在这项研究中，作者调查了反黑人如何阻碍非裔美国 CDO 履行该职位最关键的职能——建立联盟——这是社会运动和高等教育变革的主要驱动力。调查结果显示，反黑人会产生种族限制，迫使非洲裔美国 CDO 降低战略要务的优先顺序，转而重新分配时间、精力和重点，以解决其身份的种族化问题。