Achieving Creative Justice in the U.S. Creative Sector

by antonio c. cuyler

Overview

Caste and the discrimination, exclusion, marginalization, othering, oppression, subalterning, and subjugation that it produces continue to challenge creative industries compromising culture’s verisimilitude as a public good. Achieving Creative Justice in the U.S. Creative Sector explores the relationships between access, diversity, equity, and inclusion (ADEI), and creative justice in the U.S. creative sector as a solution to meaningfully address enduring creative injustices.

Whether it’s the #BlackLivesMatter, #LandBack, or #MeToo movements, caste remains structurally and systemically built into U.S. Society, and thereby the creative sector. Acknowledging this realization after George Floyd’s murder in 2020 has galvanized a quest for solutions. This book encourages sincere consideration for the human toll of insisting on artistic excellence and artistic merit at the expense of profound and unnecessary identity-based human suffering.

Providing a practical guide on how to activate ADEI to achieve creative justice and a research agenda, this book is an essential reading for practitioners and scholars who feel compelled to address creative injustices that constrain the creative flourishing of historically and continuously low-casted peoples throughout the entire cultural ecosystem that defines the U.S. creative sector.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032160535
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/21/2025
Series:	Routledge Focus on the Global Creative Economy
Pages:	88
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

antonio c. cuyler is Professor of Music in Entrepreneurship and Leadership and Faculty Associate in Voice and Opera in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD), and Faculty Associate in the African Studies Center at the University of Michigan. His Black-owned arts consultancy, Cuyler Consulting, LLC, partners with cultural organizations to maximize their performance and community relevance through access, diversity, equity, and inclusion (ADEI).

Table of Contents

1. Caste in U. S. Society and the Creative Sector 2. From Access, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ADEI) to Creative Justice in the U. S. Creative Sector: Theory 3. The Creative Justice Procedural Model: Practice 4. Progress on Creative Justice in the U.S. Creative Sector: Case Studies 5. Conclusion: Where Might the U. S. Creative Sector Go From Here?