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Looking Through Stained Glass: Lessons from Leading a Racial Reconciliation Initiative

Parker, Adrian T., Jr.
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2436-3730
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1731360525335769

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2024, Doctor of Philosophy, Miami University, Educational Leadership.
With each passing day more predominantly white institutions of higher education with Antebellum roots are uncovering and acknowledging their historical connections to slavery. In response, these institutions are establishing umbrellas to house their efforts under. These racial reconciliation initiatives largely include history-based projects such as archival research, historical-site preservation, and the erection of monuments and placards on campuses. However, racial reconciliation requires more than history-based projects which engage the Black community in the traditional and comfortable manner that the university always has. Racial reconciliation initiatives that go beyond history-based projects exist, however, these efforts are few in number and/or are short-lived. This reality suggests that there is a lack of understanding about the organizational challenges these initiatives face at PWIs. This dissertation is a case study that focuses on a the individual and collection leadership experience of a now defunct racial reconciliation initiative at a small midwestern Jesuit Catholic university. This qualitative inquiry utilizes document analysis, archival research, and semi-structured interviews with members of the leadership team to understand the experience of sustaining the initiative at the university. Employing Black Critical Theory and organizational theory, this work analyzes how decision-making may have been influenced by embedded antiblackness while also revealing strategies for institutionalization. The findings produced in this study are situated in the advancing the field of racial healing, repair, and reconciliation in higher education and its institutionalization. This work fills a significant gap in existing literature on racial reconciliation initiatives which do not include experiences from those who occupied leadership positions within an initiative.
Thomas Poetter (Committee Chair)
Joel Malin (Committee Member)
Alexis Young (Committee Member)
Denise Taliaferro-Baszile (Advisor)
158 p.
Black Studies; Higher Education; Organization Theory
higher education; racial reconciliation initiatives; racial healing, repair, and reconciliation; institutionalization; BlackCrit

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  • Parker, Jr., A. T. (2024). Looking Through Stained Glass: Lessons from Leading a Racial Reconciliation Initiative [Doctoral dissertation, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1731360525335769

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Parker, Jr., Adrian. Looking Through Stained Glass: Lessons from Leading a Racial Reconciliation Initiative. 2024. Miami University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1731360525335769.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Parker, Jr., Adrian. "Looking Through Stained Glass: Lessons from Leading a Racial Reconciliation Initiative." Doctoral dissertation, Miami University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1731360525335769

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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