“Further, when markers of race, gender, gender fluidity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion and other factors are the only criteria considered in hiring or admissions, students are cheated, as are those chosen to meet diversity measures on the basis of identity alone. Nothing is more essentialist or constraining than diversity understood strictly in terms of identity.” HiringAffirmative ActionIdentity PoliticsEssentialismTokenismDiversity In Hiring Book:Springtime for Snowflakes: Social Justice and Its Postmodern Parentage Source: Springtime for Snowflakes: Social Justice and Its Postmodern Parentage