Leadership Diversity and Social Justice

<p>In <em>Leadership Diversity and Social Justice: Culture as a System for Resistance and Emancipation </em>Antonio Jiménez-Luque thoroughly explores the influence cultural diversity has on conceptualizations and practices of leadership. His text offers new insights on relational and holistic leadership perspectives that go beyond the Euro-American canon and promote greater levels of understanding participatory processes and equity.</p><p> </p><p>The text examines the challenges of oppression and resistance through a well-crafted case study of leadership in a Native American Indian urban community. The study focuses on the process of collective emancipation and decolonization within a context of coloniality. It sheds light on processes of social change leadership and provides readers with a developmental model of culture change for organizations that can be applied in other contexts. The model consists of four stages beginning with a context of Eurocentric leadership and progressing through a deconstruction and reconstruction phase of worldmaking that combines framing and action to ultimately present a new decolonial approach.</p><p> </p><p>Rich with scholarly arguments and case study findings <em>Leadership Diversity and Social Justice </em>is ideal for courses and programs in critical leadership studies as well as community organizations and institutions that foster a greater understanding among cultures and commitment with social justice.</p><p> </p><p>The book is part of the Cognella Series on Advances in Culture Race and Ethnicity. The series co-sponsored by Division 45 of the American Psychological Association addresses critical and emerging issues within culture race and ethnic studies as well as specific topics among key multicultural groups.</p>