Race, organizations, and the organizing process / edited by Melissa E. Wooten.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wooten, Melissa E., editor.

Series:

Research in the sociology of organizations ; 0733-558X v. 60.

Research in the sociology of organizations, 0733-558X ; volume 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race discrimination--United States.

Race discrimination.

Discrimination in employment--United States.

Discrimination in employment.

Minorities--Employment--United States.

Minorities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing, [2019]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Prelims

Race, organizations, and the organizing process

Race and organization theory: reflections and open questions

Race and higher education: fields, organizations, and expertise

The unbroken south: political parties and the articulation of white supremacy

Fighting (for) charter school expansion: racial resources and ideological consistency

Organizing reentry: how racial colorblindness structures the post-imprisonment terrain

Race, knowledge, and tasks: racialized occupational trajectories

The colorblind organization

Bureaucracy, discrimination, and the racialized character of organizational life

Theorizing a racialized congressional workplace

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Print version record

ISBN:

9781787564930

1787564932

9781787564916

1787564916