Race, Organizations, and the Organizing Process

Melissa E. Wooten

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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.

Introduction: Race, Organizations, and the Organizing Process; Melissa Wooten Chapter 1. Race and Organization Theory: Reflections and Open Questions; Fabio Rojas Chapter 2. Race and Higher Education: Fields, Organizations, and Expertise; Christi M. Smith Chapter 3. The Unbroken South: Political Parties and the Articulation of White Supremacy; Cedric de Leon Chapter 4. Fighting (For) Charter School Expansion: Racial Resources and Ideological Consistency; Kyla Walters Chapter 5. Organizing Reentry: How Racial Colorblindness Structures the Post-Imprisonment Terrain; Lucius Couloute Chapter 6. Race, Knowledge, and Tasks: Racialized Occupational Trajectories; Melissa Abad Chapter 7. The Colorblind Organization; Victor Ray and Danielle Purifoy Chapter 8. Bureaucracy, Discrimination, and the Racialized Character of Organizational Life; Reginald A. Byron and Vincent J. Roscigno Chapter 9. Theorizing a Racialized Congressional Workplace; James Jones

Most research on racism focuses on individual disparity in outcomes such as pay and promotion, but here sociologists shift analytic attention to investigate how race shapes organizations and an organization's ability to get the cultural, political, and material resources it needs to survive. Their topics include race and organizational theory: reflection and open questions, the unbroken South: political parties and the articulation of white supremacy, organizing reentry: how racial colorblindness structures the post-imprisonment terrain, the colorblind organization, and theorizing a racialized congressional workplace.
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Melissa E. Wooten is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Her research lies at the intersections of organizations, education, and race. She is the author of In the Face of Inequality: How Black Colleges Adapt.