A Möbius Model of Racialized Organizations: Durability of Racial Inequalities in Admissions

Poon, OiYan; Lee, Douglas H.; Galvez, Eileen; Engler, Joanne Song; Sérráno, Bri; Raza, Ali; Hurtado, Jessica M.; Chun, Nikki Kahealani

doi:10.1080/00221546.2023.2203630

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“…Studies also indicate that university efforts to adjust processes and criteria to achieve greater diversity often evoke fears of dropping in ranks and admitting students who are of "low quality" (Poon et al, 2019;Posselt et al, 2017;Warikoo, 2016). Even in cases where racialized standards of quality undergo reform (e.g., the institution of race-conscious holistic admissions review processes), the financial demands of universities still limit the admission of low-income minoritized studentsdecisions that remain hidden under a mantle of meritocracy (Poon et al, 2023). Similar considerations also pervade faculty-hiring policies and processes (Liera, 2020;Liera & Ching, 2019;Sensoy & DiAngelo, 2017).…”

Section: Quality and Equality In The Study Of Education Policymentioning

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Constructing an Educational “Quality” Crisis: (E)quality Politics and Racialization Beyond Target Beneficiaries

McCambly,

Mulroy

2024

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

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In this critical, political discourse analysis, we trace how two concepts, equity and quality, became discursively linked and contested in the administration of postsecondary education policy over time (1968–1994)—a developmental process we refer to as (e)quality politics. By engaging in a historical analysis, we investigate (a) the racialized political origins and discursive processes by which arguments over educational “quality” are advanced as part of an antiequity policy paradigm and (b) how this paradigm reinscribes racial inequity into administrative and organizational action over time. We illustrate how, once an (e)quality politics paradigm is established, racialized policy designs can persist, even in the absence of explicit references to racialized social constructions of target populations in later periods of policy development.

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Section: Quality and Equality In The Study Of Education Policymentioning

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Constructing an Educational “Quality” Crisis: (E)quality Politics and Racialization Beyond Target Beneficiaries

McCambly,

Mulroy

2024

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

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Carrying the Weight of Campus Change: The Role of Student Equity Leaders in Community College

Felix,

Galan,

Jimenez Perez

2024

The Journal of Higher Education

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Racialized Horizontal Stratification in US Higher Education: Politics, Process, and Consequences

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Dawson,

Armstrong

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Annual Review of Sociology

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In this review, we integrate three bodies of scholarship—education stratification research, political-historical sociology of higher education, and sociological theories of race and racism—to understand the production of “separate and unequal” postsecondary experiences for racially marginalized college students in the United States. We argue that the US postsecondary system is plural, heterogeneous, and stratified partly as a result of hundreds of years of contested efforts to deploy higher education in the service of white supremacy and capital accumulation. Organizational stratification of higher education along racial lines leads to horizontal stratification in individual experiences within the same level of schooling, and even within the same university. We review literature on racialized sorting between schools, which channels racially marginalized students to different parts of the postsecondary system relative to their racially advantaged peers. We also describe stratification within schools, as students are tracked, often by race, into divergent academic and social pathways internal to a single university. Both types of sorting have racial consequences for students’ career trajectories, economic security, and well-being. Finally, we detail recent efforts to challenge horizontal stratification, responses to those efforts, and avenues for future research.

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A Möbius Model of Racialized Organizations: Durability of Racial Inequalities in Admissions

Cited by 3 publications

References 53 publications

Constructing an Educational “Quality” Crisis: (E)quality Politics and Racialization Beyond Target Beneficiaries

Constructing an Educational “Quality” Crisis: (E)quality Politics and Racialization Beyond Target Beneficiaries

Carrying the Weight of Campus Change: The Role of Student Equity Leaders in Community College

Racialized Horizontal Stratification in US Higher Education: Politics, Process, and Consequences

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