Dismantling or Disguising Racialization?: Defining Racialized Change Work in the Context of Postsecondary Grantmaking

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: McCambly, Heather; Colyvas, Jeannette A.
• 署名单位: Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; Northwestern University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1053-1858
• DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muac021
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 203-216
• 关键词: color-blindness; SOCIAL-MOVEMENTS; organizational-change; STRATEGIC CHANGE; POLICY; institutions; FOUNDATIONS; CONSTRUCTION; legitimacy; FRAMEWORK

摘要

Grantmaking organizations (GMOs) exert considerable influence on education systems, public policy, and its administration. We position the work of GMOs-in the distribution and management of funds for the public good-as a form of public management. Using recent work on racialized organizations from sociology, critical theories of race, and institutional theory, we address the role of GMOs in dismantling or reproducing inequalities. In doing so, we develop a new construct-racialized change work-to refer to the purposive action that organizations take to build new, equitable organizational arrangements or tear down old, inequitable ones. We develop quantifiable and testable propositions for how racialized change work might spread (engagement), how it might stick (institutionalization), and what effects it may have on producing equitable outcomes (impact). We build these propositions in the context of US higher education and demonstrate their portability across areas of public policy and administration. We conclude with a discussion of our contributions back to the theories from which we draw and their relationship to public administration.