Fourteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

This paper focuses on the necessity of visioning or re-visioning living portraits of decolonized and indigenized diversity practices. The diversity policies and practices of multiculturalism, employment equity, affirmative action, and social inclusion have good intentions. However, the outcomes hardly contribute to a fundamental transformation of the social stratification colonial model of diversity practices because they are entrenched in transactional connections. In contrast, decolonized and indigenized diversity practices seek to produce a different outcome by facilitating a social differentiation model of diversity based on relational connections.