The Emperor Has No Clothes: Rewriting “Race in Organizations”

This article analyzes how race has been studied in organization scholarship and demonstrates how our approaches to the study at race reflect and reify particular historical and social meanings of race. It is argued that the production of knowledge about race must be understood within a racial ideology embedded in a Eurocentric view of the world. Finally, a “re-vision” of the very concept of race and its historical and political meaning is suggested for rewriting “race” as a necessary and productive analytical category for tpropheorizing about organizations.