Negotiating Our Way Through the Gates of Academe

This article operates from an understanding of diversity as an ontological and moral phenomenon. As such, diversity evolves between people rather than something that is possessed. It can therefore be best achieved through dislocation and evolution. Toward that objective, aspects of the intellectual and pedagogical status quo that depoliticizes diversity are discussed via "the dominant model of scholarship." In response, three suggestions are offered to assist "strangers" in the disruption of such a system that offer pathways by which navigation through the academy is not only plausible but also possible.