A Critical Race Theory Analysis of Institutional Racial Paralysis in Organizational Culture. (3rd September 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Conyers, Addrain; Wright Fields, Christina
• Is Part Of: Public integrity. Volume 23:Number 5(2021)
• Page Start: 484
• Page End: 495
• Publication Date: 2021-09-03
• Subjects: institutional racial paralysis -- critical race theory -- idleness -- racial paralysis -- organizational culture -- white hegemony; Civil service ethics -- United States -- Periodicals; Public administration -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- Periodicals; Political ethics -- United States -- Periodicals; Civil service ethics -- Periodicals; Public administration -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Periodicals; Political ethics -- Periodicals; Civil service ethics; Political ethics; Public administration -- Moral and ethical aspects; United States; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; CIVIL SERVICE; MORAL ASPECTS; POLITICAL ETHICS; Periodicals; 172
• DOI: 10.1080/10999922.2020.1832365
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1099-9922

Abstract

Abstract : This article uses critical race theory (CRT) to explore institutional racial paralysis (IRP) in organizational culture. Utilizing a CRT lens, the authors identify four stages of IRP: idleness, concealment, evolving modus operandi, and pervasive. The major tenets of CRT are utilized to reveal colorblindness and White hegemony as a justification for remaining idle on issues of race. The authors argue that IRP is not a new phenomenon, but rather a byproduct of institutional racism. This article joins an expanding list of scholarship encouraging discourse that engages CRT as an instrumental theory in contemporary issues of race in public administration.