Episode 6: What’s in a Name?
How should I talk about DEIB?
In the 6th episode, “What’s in a Name?,” Lucy and Missy discuss the history of DEIB, its roots in affirmative action, how DEIB acronyms have changed, and how they might be currently changing right now. They also discuss other DEI-related “flagged” or “semi-banned” words coming from the Trump administration.
Links to Mentions & References:
-2025 National Diversity & Leadership Conference. Keynote address by President Bill Clinton. Los Angeles, April 7-10, 2025.
-Arciniega, Lucy, and Missy Maceyko. “What Is the Difference Between DEI and D&I Anyway?” Willing Observers, March 2, 2022.
-Bethea, Aiko. “What Black Employee Resource Groups Need Right Now.” Harvard Business Review, June 29, 2020.
-Canaday, Margot. Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023.
-Friedman, Raymond A. "Black Caucus Groups at Xerox Corp. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 491-047, January 1991, revised November 1994.
-Gibson-Graham, Julie-Katharine, Jenny Cameron, and Stephen Healy. Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
-Gómez, Laura E. Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism. New York: The New Press, 2022.
-Kelly, Erin, and Frank Dobbin. "How Affirmative Action Became Diversity Management: Employer Response to Antidiscrimination Law, 1961 to 1996." American Behavioral Scientist 41, no. 7 (1998): 960-984.
-Loden, Marilyn. Feminine Leadership, or, How to Succeed in Business Without Being One of the Boys. New York: Crown, 1985.
-Lorbiecki, Anna, and Gavin Jack. "Critical Turns in the Evolution of Diversity Management." British Journal of Management 11 (2000): S17-S31.
-Thomas, Roosevelt R. "From Affirmative Action to Affirming Diversity." Harvard Business Review 68, no. 2 (1990): 107-117.
-Valenti, Jessica. “The Week in Abortion.” Abortion, Every Day, February 2, 2025.
-Waterston, Alisse. "Are Latinos Becoming 'White' Folk? And What That Still Says About Race in America." Transforming Anthropology 14, no. 2 (2006): 133-150.
-Yourish, Karen, Annie Daniel, Saurabh Datar, Isaac White, and Lazaro Gamio. “These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration.” The New York Times, March 7, 2025.
