2019
DOI: 10.1108/s0733-558x20190000060008
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The Colorblind Organization

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“…Racialized organizational structures that successfully muster resources (gain power, in Sewell’s language) can be formalized by gatekeepers and exert top-down pressure on subordinates, potentially shifting the relation between schemas and resources. This can occur via the adoption of explicitly race-based (or even colorblind) rules (Ray and Purifoy n.d. ), or by adopting the practices of peer organizations within a field.…”
Section: Organizations Are Racial Structuresmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Racialized organizational structures that successfully muster resources (gain power, in Sewell’s language) can be formalized by gatekeepers and exert top-down pressure on subordinates, potentially shifting the relation between schemas and resources. This can occur via the adoption of explicitly race-based (or even colorblind) rules (Ray and Purifoy n.d. ), or by adopting the practices of peer organizations within a field.…”
Section: Organizations Are Racial Structuresmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Faculty maintain a culture of niceness when they use race-neutral language to explain the existence of racial inequity (Dowd & Bensimon, 2015) and to exonerate themselves from any responsibility to advance racial equity (Harper & Patton, 2007). Ray and Purifoy (2019) argued that colorblind routines are rooted in norms of interracial comfort, familiarity, and trust, which organizational actors repackage as race-neutral objective merit, professionalism, collegiality, and teamwork, which are reflective components of a culture of niceness (Alemán, 2009; Castagno, 2014; Roegman, Allen, & Hatch, 2017).…”
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“…Racialized burdens do not incidentally fall on racially marginalized groups: they are historically designed to do so while maintaining a myth of formal race neutrality. In doing so, racialized burdens link the overt racism of the pre-Civil Rights era with contemporary colorblind denialism (Bonilla-Silva 2010), providing public organizations with both racialized procedures and plausible deniability (Ray and Purifoy 2019).…”
Section: Studying Racialized Burdens: Bringing Organizations Back Inmentioning
confidence: 99%