Race, organizations, and the organizing process /

• Other Authors: Wooten, Melissa E. (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.
• Series: Research in the sociology of organizations ; v. 60.
• Subjects: Race discrimination > United States.; Discrimination in employment > United States.; Minorities > Employment > United States.; Social Science > Ethnic Studies > General.; Sociology: work & labour.

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 org...

Table of 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.