Anti-racist approaches to education:
In the video the Harvard Professor talks about how inclusivity is often used synonymously to diversity and that if universities make their diversity quota, they can pat themselves on the back for being inclusive. That is one point that connects to the ideas I noted from Tatum’s book. I am tired of people pretending to be inclusive, yet rarely accepting ALL of who they are “including”. To me that means accepting all intersectional identities, which is another point I noted from the video.
The speaker mentions how universities are still selective with which minorities will attend their school and usually, that means minorities who have previously attended private institutions. He calls that group of students “the privileged poor” because of their intersecting identities. They are poor, usually in regard to their economic status, while also remaining privileged due to access. This relates to the title of the video “access ain’t inclusion”. That statement refers to how access to higher education is still incredibly selective and discriminatory against minorities, especially of lower class, so universities (and many other institutions) are perceived to be inclusive while completely neglecting the truth of the matter: access to higher education is given to minorities who would have already had that access. The speaker said universities are taking “new diversity from old sources” and I could not agree more. University diversity quotas completely neglect inclusivity.