Toward a More Just Nonprofit Sector: Leveraging a Critical Approach to Disrupt and Dismantle White Masculine Space

Nickels, Ashley E.; Leach, Kirk A.

doi:10.1080/10999922.2020.1870833

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“…Feit (2019) builds upon the CRT emphasis on counter storytelling (Solórzano & Yosso, 2009) to focus on the voices of service recipients, staff, and community stakeholders adjacent to or within nonprofits. That approach is embraced by Nickels and Leach (2021) as a mechanism for disrupting the influence of whiteness. Francis’s (2019) shows how necessary that mechanism is; she shows how White funders went beyond interest convergence and directly influenced the trajectory of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s (NAACP) civil rights work in a process she calls “movement capture.”…”

Section: Crt and Nonprofitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Nonprofit Segregation: The Exclusion and Impact of White Nonprofit Networks

Danley

Blessett

2022

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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Nonprofits in cities often exist in segregated contexts in which leadership in high-capacity nonprofits reflects the whiteness of surrounding suburbs while leadership in grassroots nonprofits reflects the makeup of residency (low-income people of color). We build upon a small but burgeoning literature that uses critical race theory to better understand whiteness and segregation in the nonprofit sector. Using ethnographic data in Camden, New Jersey (NJ), we identify three key emergent findings on the impact of a segregated nonprofit sector: (a) the sector’s segregation reflects regional, residential segregation; (b) White, suburban overrepresentation in high-capacity nonprofits leads to a defense of White, suburban interests; and (c) these dynamics contribute to economic segregation within the sector. In our conclusion, we lay out a wider theoretical discussion of how these factors are interrelated.

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Section: Crt and Nonprofitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this article, we build upon a small but burgeoning literature using critical race theory (CRT) and whiteness as property (C. I. Harris, 1993) to better understand the day-to-day impact of segregation in the nonprofit sector (see Francis, 2019; Nickels & Leach, 2021; Sandberg et al, 2019; Willner, 2019).…”

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Nonprofit Segregation: The Exclusion and Impact of White Nonprofit Networks

Danley

Blessett

2022

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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“…And calling White supremacy "White supremacy." Critical Race Theory critiques the idea that there is inherent rationality, objectivity, or neutrality in our socio-political milieu (Carbado & Roithmayr, 2014;Mackey, 2017;Nickels & Leach, 2021). Bell (2018) suggests that liberal ideals of equal opportunity or colorblind justice actually serve the White elite by "cloaking and reinforcing society's deep structural inequalities."…”

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“…Relatedly, Heckler (2017) articulates that CRT can be used to demonstrate how "colorblindness is a means of communicating White racial dominance by devaluing the experiences of people of color" (p. 175). More recently, Nickels and Leach (2021) contend that CRT centers race to analytically understand the modus operandi of racialization and/or racial logic supporting forms of institutional oppression. Connecting this to our study, we argue that providing space for more editors from the margins reflects race-conscious, as opposed to colorblind editorial leadership.…”

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Resistance or reinforcement? A critical discourse analysis of racism and anti-Blackness in public administration scholarship

Trochmann

Viswanath

Puello

et al. 2021

Administrative Theory & Praxis

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This article identifies the ways that White supremacy manifests throughout the field of public administration in its research and scholarship. Through a critical discourse analysis of symposia over a period of 20 years in three foremost public administration journals, this paper investigates the extent to which each journal either reinforces or resists systemic racism. Peer-reviewed journals serve as gatekeepers to advancing and shaping the direction of research; as such, symposia are a mechanism through which editors signal interest, create intellectual space, open dialogue in a particular research direction, and share editorial power with guest editors who either represent marginalized or hegemonic identities and positions. Our analysis reveals there is an opportunity to enhance race-consciousness, intentional anti-racist language, powersharing, and resistance in future symposia. The article concludes by offering a path forward toward dismantling, reconciling, and repairing the entrenched, systemic, and historic racism and anti-Blackness in the field of public administration.

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“…The aspect of FUND and BUFF’s relationship not fully captured by existing studies, however, is the centrality of race to, and its intersections with, the funder–grantee relationship. As Nickels and Leach (2021) argue, the nonprofit sector exists as a White, masculine space, and the literature has not sufficiently grappled with the theories of critical race and gender studies essential to understand it (Suarez, 2020; also Anderson, 2015; Ray, 2019; Villanueva, 2018). This article takes up their call to more fully integrate analyses of race into nonprofit studies, doing so through a focus on relationships between funder and grantee.…”

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No Strings Attached: Philanthropy, Race, and Donor Control From Black Power to Black Lives Matter

Dunning

2022

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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This article examines a moment of crisis and experimentation in philanthropy from the late 1960s to analyze how race shapes philanthropy. Specifically, it considers two giving circles in Boston launched as a linked funding initiative to address economic and racial inequality: (a) a group of wealthy, White suburbanites who started the Fund for Urban Negro Development to direct donations with “no strings attached” to the other, (b) the Boston Black United Front Foundation, an entity started by Black power activists in the city. Using archival records of the two groups, I analyze their efforts to decouple hierarchies of race and giving in funder–grantee relationships, and connect scholarship on African American history and philanthropy to that on donor control. I frame the notion of “no strings attached” giving as relative and shaped by positioning and identity in ways that produce multiple understandings of the material and abstract “strings” of philanthropy.

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Toward a More Just Nonprofit Sector: Leveraging a Critical Approach to Disrupt and Dismantle White Masculine Space

Cited by 39 publications

References 54 publications

Nonprofit Segregation: The Exclusion and Impact of White Nonprofit Networks

Nonprofit Segregation: The Exclusion and Impact of White Nonprofit Networks

Resistance or reinforcement? A critical discourse analysis of racism and anti-Blackness in public administration scholarship

No Strings Attached: Philanthropy, Race, and Donor Control From Black Power to Black Lives Matter

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