Managing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Public Service Organizations: A Liberatory Justice Approach [Paperback]

Managing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Public Service Organizations?is a textbook designed to facilitate critical, courageous conversations that recognize our differences, including privileged and marginalized social identities, and engage readers in the principles and practice of solidarity to transform systems of oppression.?

Part I: Introduction: Core Concepts  1. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Liberatory Justice (DEILJ)  2. Understanding Oppression: What It Is, How It Works and How to Interrupt it?  Part II: Building Blocks of A Liberatory Public Service Framework  3. Trauma-Informed and Healing-Centered Public Service  4. Nurturing Collectives: Building Capacity for Courageous DEILJ Conversations  5. Cultivating a Liberatory Public Service: Lessons from Social Justice Movement Visions and Frameworks  6. Diffusion of DEILJ Innovations in Public Service  Part III: Liberatory Public Service Approach: Applications and Integrations  7. Unravelling Racism and Moving Toward Racial Justice: Part I  8. Unravelling Racism and Moving Toward Racial Justice: Part II  9. Interrupting Sexism, Heteropatriarchy, and Trans Oppression: Moving Toward LGBTQIA+ and Gender Justice  10. Countering Intersectional Ableism and Moving Toward Disability Justice  11. Concluding Reflections: Aspiring for Liberatory Public Service

This book looks anew at old problems. For the optimist, the book shows the way forward. For the realist, it acknowledges hurdles to be jumped. For the pessimist, it explains liberatory precepts and makes them accessiblSÍ