Abstract:
My research examines the long-term negative impact of dismantling affirmative action in California. In 1995, Republican bill Proposition 209 effectively ended affirmative action in California (Kidder, 2001). Affirmative action programs were subsequently replaced with diversity and inclusion initiatives. Diversity became a new synthesis focused on placing bodies and numbers of bodies in categories to satisfy categories of bodies (Flores, 2013). These categories were designed to generate the most revenue from diversity and inclusion programs funded by state and federal governments. This process resulted in a social phenomenon, which I have identified as the business of diversity |
