Foreward
Preface
1. Diversity performance, social surveillance and rescinding human rights: Understanding the health outcomes of diversity resistance
Kecia M. Thomas, Justin A. Lavner, Zoe E. Johnston & Cambrilyn Scofield
2. Unapologetic Authentic Early Career Black Women: Challenging the Dominant Narrative
Danielle D. Dickens, Veronica Y. Womack
3. Sexuality Blindness: A New Frontier of Diversity Resistance
Oscar Holmes IV
4. Diversity Resistance and Gender Identity: How Far Have We Come and Where Do We Still Need to Go?
Katina Sawyer, Christian Thoroughgood
5. Stigma as Diversity Resistance to Employees with Mental Illness
Kayla Follmer, Kisha Jones
6. Diversity resistance redux: The nature and implications of dominant group threat for diversity and inclusion
Victoria C. Plaut, Celina A. Romano, Kyneshawau Hurd, Emily Goldstein
7. The Response to Social Justice Issues in Organizations as a form of Diversity Resistance
Enrica N. Ruggs, Karoline M. Summerville, Christopher K. Marshburn
8. Artful Avoidance: Initial Considerations for Measuring Diversity Resistance in Cultural Organizations
Brea M. Heidelberg
9. The Dance of Inclusion: New Ways of Moving With Resistance
Plácida V. Gallegos, Ilene C. Wasserman, & Bernardo M. Ferdman
10. African-American Professionals in Public Relations and the Greater Impacts
Candace P. Parrish, Janice Z. Gassam
Index
Biography
Kecia M. Thomas is Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology at the University of Georgia, U.S.A. She holds a joint appointment with the Institute of African-American Studies and is an affiliate of the Institute for Women’s Studies. She is the Senior Associate Dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and is an elected Fellow of both the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the American Psychological Association.
"Political divisiveness, the rise of the alt-right movement and growing intolerance have infiltrated many organizations and the workplace. In this update, Dr. Thomas provides fresh insights and covers new grounds on present day resistance to diversity."
—Eddy Ng, James and Elizabeth Freeman Professor of Management, Bucknell University, U.S.A.
