Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs Volume 5 Issue 3 Promoting Access & Critical Literacy: Working Within, Beyond, and Against the Article 4 Academy 2020 “Diversity & Inclusion & Free Speech & Civility”: Oppression and Marginalization through Diversity Rhetoric Kamden Strunk Auburn University Hannah Carson Baggett Auburn University Ivan E. Watts Auburn University Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.luc.edu/jcshesa Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education Commons Recommended Citation Strunk, Kamden; Baggett, Hannah Carson; and Watts, Ivan E. (2020) "“Diversity & Inclusion & Free Speech & Civility”: Oppression and Marginalization through Diversity Rhetoric," Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs: Vol. 5 : Iss. 3 , Article 4. Available at: https://ecommons.luc.edu/jcshesa/vol5/iss3/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals and Magazines at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Volume 5, Issue 3 Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs “Diversity & Inclusion & Free Speech & Civility” Oppression and Marginalization through Diversity Rhetoric Kamden Strunk, Auburn University Hannah Carson Baggett, Auburn University Ivan E. Watts, Auburn University — Abstract — As higher education institutions increasingly roll out diversity and inclusion initiatives, they intend to signal particular commitments. In this manuscript, we employ critical literacy as a framework for understanding the text and subtext of moments on our campus related to diversity and inclusion offices and initiatives.