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What Is Diversity? And Why Is It Valuable?

McBrayer, Justin
http://quillette.com/2021/10/06/understanding-the-meaning-of-diversity/

Publisher:  Quillette
Date Written:  06/10/2021
Year Published:  2021  
Resource Type:  Article

Suppose I just get back from vacation, and you ask me how it went. "Oh, it was wonderful," I say, "There was such diversity." That wouldn’t answer your question at all. Instead, you'd want to know two things: Diversity of what? And why would that sort of diversity make the vacation better? It doesn't make sense to speak about diversity, full stop. There's only diversity of this or that. And diversity isn't always valuable. Despite this, higher education continues to talk about diversity in the abstract.

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