A New Era and New Concepts in the Study of Race in Public Administration

Reckoning With Race and Gender in Public Administration and Public Policy: A Substantive Social Equity Turn

“…Public policy and public administration scholars need a better understanding of this “elasticity” and the processes of racialization and how they disadvantage as well as advantage some over others. As PAR editorial in a previous issue described anti‐Blackness in the United States, “… there is a long history, dating back to Reconstruction, of municipalities using the police force to keep the black population in line … Education, manners, and wealth, characteristics that might result in better treatment for members of some communities, did not shield individual African Americans from horrors of police violence or brutality (Pandey, Bearfield, and Hall 2022, 206).”…”

Epistemic decolonization of public policy pedagogy and scholarship

“…It is not as if such theorizing is absent. Sociologists and legal scholars, whose work as a community of scholars is not elevated by an award like the Sveriges Riksbank Prize, have long advanced powerful ideas about racial hierarchy that can be helpful (for overviews, see Pandey, Bearfield, & Hall, 2022;Pandey, Newcomer, et al, 2022). 11 To return to our refrain, liberated public policy pedagogy and scholarship needs to draw upon disciplines in a mutually supportive manner by recognizing boundaries, recognizing domain competence, and harmoniously integrating them.…”

In Search of Social Equity in Public Administration: Race, Gender, and Some “Class”‐ey New Ideas

“…To pave the way for the release of this body of research I joined Sanjay Pandey and Domonic Bearfield in an editorial introduction to the preceding issue (82:2) where we laid out a number of points that we feel are important to moving the needle on this topic. There we suggested the importance of looking to history as a dominant force, to recognizing the lack of attention to social hierarchy in public administration research, and to reliance on heterodox sources to strengthen the study of race (Pandey, Bearfield, and Hall 2022). One of the core problems of a canonized literature is being able to depart from it in meaningful ways.…”

“…I remember sitting near the teachers on the school playground at recess to avoid bullying. In the previous issue's editorial (Pandey, Bearfield, and Hall 2022), we wrote about “the talk” that Black families give to their children about interacting with police. You see, I can relate to that experience on a very personal level.…”