{"id":38549,"date":"2014-11-27T02:52:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T02:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38549"},"modified":"2014-11-27T02:52:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T02:52:59","slug":"fake-diversity-and-racial-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38549","title":{"rendered":"Fake Diversity and Racial Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@nancyleong\/racial-photoshop-and-faking-diversity-b880e7bc5e7a\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Fake Diversity and Racial Capitalism<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\" target=\"_blank\">Medium<\/a><br \/>\n2014-11-23<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nancyleong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Nancy Leong<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Law<br \/>\nSturm College of Law<br \/>\n<em>University of Denver<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For decades now, it\u2019s been fashionable for institutions of all kinds to showcase their racially diverse constituencies. This is true even when the institution in question has been sued for discrimination on the basis of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/21\/business\/21walmart.html?fta=y&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">race<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/the-impact-and-echoes-of-the-wal-mart-discrimination-case\" target=\"_blank\">gender<\/a>, or other protected categories:&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;But behind the smiling, diverse faces, many institutions also share a dirty little secret. A lot of the diversity is the result not of the institution\u2019s inclusive practices when it comes to recruiting, hiring, admitting or whatever other word is appropriate. Rather, it\u2019s the result of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adobe_Photoshop\" target=\"_blank\">Photoshop<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;How can we explain this impulse to overstate diversity, either through Photoshop or through aggressive presentation of diversity? I examined this phenomenon in a 2013 article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvardlawreview.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Harvard Law Review<\/em><\/a> called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=22403\" target=\"_blank\">Racial Capitalism<\/a>.\u201d What I call racial capitalism is the process of an individual or group deriving value from the racial identity of another person. While in theory any group might derive value from the racial identity of another, in practice, since white people are historically and presently a majority in America, racial capitalism most often involves a white person or a predominantly white institution extracting value from non-white racial identity.<\/p>\n<p>Racial capitalism explains why white people are so keen to tell you about their black friends. It explains why white people are so anxious to tell you about the diverse neighborhood they live in. And, more generally, it explains why people have a powerful incentive to display their affiliation with non-white people&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@nancyleong\/racial-photoshop-and-faking-diversity-b880e7bc5e7a\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake Diversity and Racial Capitalism Medium 2014-11-23 Nancy Leong, Professor of Law Sturm College of Law University of Denver For decades now, it\u2019s been fashionable for institutions of all kinds to showcase their racially diverse constituencies. This is true even when the institution in question has been sued for discrimination on the basis of race, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1467,8,26,20],"tags":[18537,1959],"class_list":["post-38549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-medium","tag-nancy-leong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}