Business and Economics
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Boyd, K. (2018). Using critical race theory to solve our profession's critical race issues.听Journal of Financial Planning, 31(5), 13鈥14.
- The author discusses ways to apply CRT to diversity and inclusion efforts in financial planning.
Branker, R. R. (2017).听.听Journal of International Migration and Integration, 18(1), 203鈥222. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-016-0469-x
- The study examines 鈥渢he lived experiences of immigrants in Toronto from Jamaica, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago, with emphasis on their perceptions and experiences of labor market discrimination.鈥 Study strongly suggests that 鈥渢here is an issue of racism and sexism at play in the Canadian labor market that negatively affects outcomes for Caribbean immigrants in Toronto.鈥
Byrd, M. Y. (2009).听.听Advances in Developing Human Resources, 11(5), 582鈥605. https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422309351514
- This study explores the interlocking system of race, gender, and social class by examining the leadership experiences of 10 African American women in predominantly White organizations. The most salient encounters that the women in this study experienced were 鈥渄isempowering encounters, being excluded from the good ole boy social network, being the only one, needing validation, and demythicizing鈥 stereotypical images.鈥
Dar, S., Liu, H., Martinez Dy, A., & Brewis, D. N. (2020).听.听翱谤驳补苍颈锄补迟颈辞苍,听1鈥12. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508420928521
- The authors call upon scholars of color to recognize the ways business schools are structured by White supremacy and devalue the knowledge and experiences of scholars of color.
Davis, J. F. (2018).听.听Journal of Marketing Management, 34(1-2), 134鈥177. https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2017.1395902
- This article provides a critical review of the literature concerning marketing and racism, grounded in theoretical foundations drawn from CRT, Whiteness theory, and attendant models of privilege and oppression in society. The extant literature 鈥渋ndicates a relationship between racism, marketing and social hierarchies which manifest with regard to marketing representations of people of color and racialized groups; discriminatory practices in the marketplace and the roles of marketing professionals of color.鈥
Falck, C. (2012). Equitable access: Examining information asymmetry in reverse redlining claims through critical race theory.听Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights, 18(1), 101鈥120.
- This article discusses lawsuits alleging that banks engaged in predatory lending鈥攖hat is, offering subprime loans to individuals who either could have qualified for a fairly administered loan or who should not have qualified for any loan. It explores the issue through CRT and neoclassical economics. It criticizes 鈥渟everal assumptions underlying the neoclassical approach, focusing on the realities disadvantaged minority plaintiffs face and detail attributes that make courts well suited to serve as institutions for reform.鈥 The article endorses 鈥渁 more active role on the part of judges in addressing the information asymmetry faced by plaintiffs who bring reverse-redlining claims.鈥
Francis, J. N. P., & Robertson, J. T. F. (2021)聽.听Journal of Marketing Management, 37(1-2), 84鈥116. https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2020.1863447
- This paper 鈥渋nterrogates how racially discriminatory practices by real estate agents, lenders, and retailers produce and reproduce marketplace inequities for Black consumers.鈥 Drawing on CRT and interdisciplinary research, the paper reveals 鈥渢he normalization and permanence of racism in practices and policies aimed at protecting White spaces.鈥 When viewed through a CRT lens, the authors conclude that 鈥渋n the American context, the invisible hand of the market is not invisible. Rather, it is White.鈥
Grier, S. A., & Poole, S. M. (2020)聽.听Journal of Marketing Management, 36(13-14), 1190鈥1222, https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2020.1800796
- The authors examine the role of race in faculty hiring in order to identify barriers that hinder racial diversity within business schools. They use CRT as an analytic framework 鈥渢o examine the ways racial inequality is reproduced through specific practices in the business school search process.鈥
Harney, S., & Dunne, S. (2013).听.听Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 24(4-5), 338鈥349. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2011.06.007
- The authors studied 2,331 journal articles in business and management from 2003 and 2004 published in the 20 most popular journals. Of all articles, CRT and postcolonial studies figured only 1.5% of the time.
Lewis, A. M. (2015).听.听European Journal of Contemporary Economics and Management, 2(2), 1鈥13. https://doi.org/10.19044/elp.v2no2a1
- In the U.S., few Black certified public accountants exist in proportion to their White peers and only a handful ever reach the level of partner in large accounting firms. It is a problem that has been left unproblematized. Instead, 鈥渁ssumptions of racial neutrality and an unshakable faith in accountancy as a value free technocracy, untouched by social reality abound.鈥 A CRT critical framework 鈥(re) problematizes poor Black entry and progression, seeking the formation of new strategies to challenge the stratified reality of a gendered and raced profession.鈥
Lewis, A. (2020). When will we be able to breathe in accounting? Provoking an honest conversation about race and racism in the profession.听The CPA Journal, 90(9), 36鈥41.
- Lewis calls for accounting to be intersectional in nature, to address racism directly, and to demand a profession of actual equality.
Liu, H., & Baker, C. (2016).听.听Leadership, 12(4), 420鈥448. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742715014565127
- The authors conducted a discourse analysis of the media representations of 12 business leaders engaged in philanthropy in Australia 鈥渢o demonstrate how White practices of normalization, solipsism and ontological expansiveness underpin the construction of White leaders as speaking for society, mastering all environments and self-sacrificing for the greater good.鈥
Logan, N. (2016).听.听Public Relations Inquiry, 5(1), 93鈥113. https://doi.org/10.1177/2046147X15626969
- Logan employs CRT to analyze the Starbucks Race Together Initiative as well as reactions to it in the news media and on Twitter.
Logan, N. (2019).听.听Journal of Business Ethics, 154(4), 977鈥988. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-018-3893-3
- Logan draws upon CRT, among other theoretical perspectives, to introduce the corporate responsibility to race concept. She discusses how corporations like Starbucks, AT&T, and Ben & Jerry鈥檚 have attempted to demonstrate a responsibility to race.
Mahin, S. L., & Ekstrand, V. S. (2021).听.听Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 98(1), 13鈥36. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699020928166
- Using #BlackLivesMatter as a case study, this research 鈥渄ocuments the tensions and harms associated with trademarking online social movement hashtags.鈥 Grounded in the work of CRT and intellectual property scholars, it analyzes 鈥渢he inconsistencies in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office application practice. The contradictions signal 鈥渁 limited or 鈥榤is鈥檜nderstanding of the utility of citizen-created hashtags and online social movement slogans.鈥 The authors propose 鈥渁 provisional networked trademark that would grant limited protection to social movements to show that their marks demonstrate the kind of secondary meaning required for a traditional trademark.鈥
Poole, S. M., Grier, S. A., Thomas, K. D., Sobande, F., Ekpo, A. E., Torres, L. Trujillo., Addington, L. A., Weekes-Laidlow, M., & Henderson, G. R. (2021).听.听Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 40(2), 126鈥142. https://doi.org/10.1177/0743915620964114
- To understand and transform the insidious ways in which race operates, the authors 鈥渆xamine its impact in marketplaces and how these effects are shaped by intersecting forms of systemic oppression.鈥 They introduce CRT to the marketing community as a useful framework for understanding consumers, consumption, and contemporary marketplaces.
Pouncy, C. R. P. (2002). Institutional economics and critical race/LatCrit theory: The need for a critical "raced" economics.听Rutgers Law Review, 54(4), 841鈥852.
- The author discusses how institutional economics 鈥渋s well positioned to permit the development of policy instruments that can be used both to deepen our descriptive analyses and to concretize our efforts at constructing systemic policy interventions.鈥
Safransky, S. (2020).听.听International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 44(2), 200鈥218. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12833
- This article examines the broader phenomenon through the case of a proprietary market value assessment that is being used to guide development in cities across the U.S. The author argues that 鈥渢he racial, infrastructural, and epistemological violence associated with this evaluation can potentially lead to a new kind of municipal redlining.鈥 The article 鈥渂rings insights from CRT theory into conversation with critical scholarship on algorithms by analyzing how algorithmic violence works through data鈥恉riven planning technologies to depoliticize and leverage power while further entrenching racism and inequality.鈥
Syed, I. U. (2016).听.听Journal of International Migration and Integration, 17(2), 449鈥465. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-015-0427-z
- This paper 鈥渢heorizes a novel connection of health inequities experienced by racialized and immigrant peoples in Canada as a result of globalization and market liberalism.鈥 Employing a political economy perspective, this paper suggests the exploitation of 鈥淢arket Migrants鈥 in Canada.
Tyler, S. S., Rivers, L., III., Moore, E. A., & Rosenbaum, R. (2014).听.听Race, Gender & Class, 21(3-4), 232鈥251. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43496994
- Using a critical race methodology to interpret 11 semi-structured interviews with Black Michigan farm owners, the authors investigate experiential perceptions of farm ownership loans. Findings indicate that 鈥渇armers hesitate to use government farm loans, because of histories of racialized experiences, racial discriminatory lending practices, and non-existent outreach from Farm Service Agency lenders.鈥 Farmers' perceptions suggest a serious need for greater fairness and better education in the administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture farm loan programs.