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Racialized Equity Labor, University Appropriation and Student Resistance

Lerma, Veronica, Hamilton, Laura T, Nielsen, Kelly·2020·Social Problems
DOI 10.1093/socpro/spz011
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We coin the term “racialized equity labor” to describe the often uncompensated efforts of people of color to address systematic racism and racial marginalization within organizations. Using a year-long ethnographic and interview study of a majority-minority public university, we focus specifically on the racialized equity labor of college students who, like many faculty and staff of color, often labor to make their campuses comfortable and functional for historically underrepresented populations. We identify a cycle of racialized labor appropriation whereby: 1) people of color identify problems in the racial environment of their organizations and work to solve them; 2) leadership responds by blocking efforts and/or denying issues; 3) external and/or internal pressures force introspection and push leaders to resolve an organizational threat (e.g., to the university’s public image of diversity); and finally, 4) leadership appropriates racialized equity labor, and in doing so converts it into a diluted diversity initiative. Those engaged in racialized equity labor may resist appropriation, but the cycle takes a toll on activists. The ways in which organizations respond to racialized equity labor offers insight into the reproduction of racial inequities, despite the hard work of people of color to create meaningful racial change.

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  1. Ashkenas, 2017, “Even with Affirmative Action, Blacks and Hispanics Are More Underrepresented at Top Colleges than 35 Years Ago.”, New York Times
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Authors
Lerma, V., Hamilton, L. T., & Nielsen, K.
Affiliations
  • University of California, Merced (US)
  • Cornell University (US)
Corresponding author
Lerma, Veronica
ORCID
Venue
Social Problems
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2019-05-13
Volume
67
Issue
2
Pages
286-303
ISSN
  • 0037-7791 (ISSN-L)
  • 1533-8533
DOI
10.1093/socpro/spz011
OpenAlex
W2946393136
Cited by
123
References
48
Citations by year
2026: 24 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 15
FWCI
22.66
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model (vor)
Locations
Social Problems (publishedVersion)
Funders
William T. Grant Scholars
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Critical Race Theory in Education
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Movements and Cultural Identity
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
Keywords
student resistance, public universities, people of color, systemic racism, racial marginalization, diversity initiatives, racial inequity, campus diversity

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