The delusion of privilege

Diggs, Schnequa N.

doi:10.1080/10841806.2021.1984102

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“…This section establishes our claim that excluding a few articles (Gooden 2015a; Gooden, 2017; Williams, 1947), social equity scholarship has published limited historical analyses of pre-1968 periods (Gooden, 2017; Johnson & Svara, 2011; Moloney et al, 2023; Trochmann et al, 2022). It is a concept with still-nascent understandings about Whiteness at its Minnowbrook “origin” (for a start, see Crenshaw, 1989; Diggs, 2022; Heckler, 2017; Hooks, 1981; Moloney & Lewis, 2023; Portillo et al, 2022). In contrast, our paper's use of racial contract theory helps place history, Whiteness, and the “who” can speak at its center.…”

Section: The Ahistorical Whiteness Of the Social Equity Concept “Orig...mentioning

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Social Equity, Intellectual History, Black Movement Leaders, and Marcus Garvey

Moloney,

Lewis

2023

The American Review of Public Administration

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This paper engages the U.S.-focused social equity literature and its ahistorical understanding of its pre-1968 intellectual histories. We use racial contract theory to highlight the epistemological necessity of a disciplinary reconsideration. We suggest that intellectual histories bound to an exclusively academic voice negate a fuller understanding of lived realities. By engaging the work of a Jamaican-born activist like Marcus Garvey and his significant inroads into 1910s and 1920s America, we create an updated historical understanding of social equity that challenges the disciplinary script.

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Section: The Ahistorical Whiteness Of the Social Equity Concept “Orig...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Equity, Intellectual History, Black Movement Leaders, and Marcus Garvey

Moloney,

Lewis

2023

The American Review of Public Administration

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Dismantling racism and white supremacy in public service institutions and society: contextualizing the discussion and introducing the symposium

McCandless

Blessett

2022

Administrative Theory & Praxis

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The Flawed Foundations of Social Equity in Public Administration: A Racial Contract Theory Critique

Moloney,

Lewis

2023

Perspectives on Public Management and Governance

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The social equity concept of American public administration traces its roots to the philosophies of John Rawls, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. We suggest such fixed positionalities limit what is knowable about social equity. This is due to their restricted considerations of America’s racialized origins. By introducing Charles Mills’ racial contract theory to the public administration discipline, we suggest that the assumed “social contract” at America’s origins was racialized, was disconnected from its historical actuality, and was born of exploitation. Racialized epistemological foundations alter how the social equity concept is understood. The implications matter for our disciplinary understanding of social equity and its origins.

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The delusion of privilege

Cited by 3 publications

References 20 publications

Social Equity, Intellectual History, Black Movement Leaders, and Marcus Garvey

Social Equity, Intellectual History, Black Movement Leaders, and Marcus Garvey

Dismantling racism and white supremacy in public service institutions and society: contextualizing the discussion and introducing the symposium

The Flawed Foundations of Social Equity in Public Administration: A Racial Contract Theory Critique

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