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Racialized experiences as in-betweenness in academia

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ID20501243
AuthorsEmmanouela Mandalaki (0000-0002-9228-3516, NEOMA Business School), Ajnesh Prasad (0000-0002-4368-1796, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico & Royal Roads University, Canada, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume31
Issue1
Pages199-212
Publication date2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOrganization (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1350-5084 • E-ISSN: 1461-7323
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/13505084221096811
OpenAlexW4281710036
LanguageEN
Citations received23
References cited70

This article draws on an in-depth narrative of a Chinese woman, early career researcher based in a UK business school, to consider questions of subtle racism in academia. Specifically, engaging with our informant’s testimony, and reading it in the context of critical organizational debates on race, we offer episodic accounts of the subtle racism that she has encountered in academia to conceptualize experiences of in-betweenness of racial minorities excluded from dominant diversity discourses. In her case, subtle racism appears to emanate from a set of gendered and racialized tropes, culminating in the “model minority” myth. This article captures how racism is encountered differently by different populations; specifically, it illuminates how racism materializes in culturally-dependent, idiosyncratic forms, which should not be de-contextualized from the historical, political, and social dynamics that engender it. In so doing, it contributes to recent efforts to speak out against racism in the academy

Anti-racism · Critical race theory · Mythology · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · History · Law · Mentoring and Academic Development

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