title: Leading the Way on Diversity: Community Psychology's Evolution from Invisible to Individual to Contextual.
abstract: To take up the AJCP editor's call to think forward in this article, I offer up three challenges that revolve around further contextualizing our understandings of diversity, i.e., reconsidering the notion of "difference" between discrete categories; more fully emphasizing diversity as socially situated; and further delving into local, setting-specific practices that shape the meanings of diversity. Enhanced attention to these three challenges can transform theory, research, and action about diversity as we move into community psychology's next 50 years.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and Center for Women & Work, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Meg A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Bond
mesh_terms: D062309:Community Integration; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D011593:Psychology, Social / Q000639:trends*; D011640:Public Policy / Q000639:trends; D012932:Social Facilitation; D066269:Social Theory; D012945:Social Values
keywords: Community psychology; Difference; Diversity; Social conditions; Social context