Race, Organizations, And The Organizing Process Volume 60 Hardcover

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There have been few efforts to conceive of race as a characteristic that organizations possess or at the very least a characteristic that exists at the institutional level with which organizations must contend. In the United States especially, this belies our history of marking organizations and organizational practices as "Black" or "White", essentially "racing" organizations. Despite the undoing of legally sanctioned racial segregation, we continue to use such demarcations to classify organizations as Black colleges or Black media companies. Sociology is ill equipped to explain this history and its modern day consequences in part because we lack bridges between those studying the problems of race and those studying the problems of organizing. Consequently, we cannot adequately speak to how race affects organizations, markets, or institutions. This book brings together scholarship that interrogates the relationship between race and the organizing process for the founding of organizations, the organizational pursuit of human, financial, or political resources, organizational choices regarding strategic orientation and structural configurations, and the role of institutional logics that saturate organizations, industries, and markets with racialized ideologies.

9781787564923

English

Emerald Publishing Limited

20 May 2019

216

Melissa E. Wooten

Most research on racism focuses on individual disparity in outcomes such as pay and promotion, but here sociologists shift analytic attention to investigate how race shapes organizations and an organization's ability to get the cultural, political, and material resources it needs to survive. Their topics include race and organizational theory: reflection and open questions, the unbroken South: political parties and the articulation of white supremacy, organizing reentry: how racial colorblindness structures the post-imprisonment terrain, the colorblind organization, and theorizing a racialized congressional workplace.