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Leveraging from Racism: A Dual Structural Advantages Perspective

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  • Penelope Muzanenhamo

    (University College Dublin, Ireland)

  • Rashedur Chowdhury

    (University of Southampton, UK)

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Drawing on the autobiography of an immigrant Black African female scholar, we introduce and conceptualize the notion of dual structural advantages that racism potentially affords elite White male academics. These hegemonic scholars enjoy two types of possible advantage. First, as gatekeepers to a racist academic system, powerful White male scholars protect their interests by epistemically excluding the ‘Other’ from knowledge production. Second, these hegemonic agents ironically utilize racism as a hermeneutical resource for ‘impactful’ research output, grounded in progressive, anti-racist theorizations in collaboration with Black male scholars. Such work is disseminated and perpetuated through elite academic outlets, thus substantially leveraging the agents’ careers and university rankings. Foregrounding double advantages in debates on racial equality accentuates the necessity of changing the agential practices of elite White male scholars in order to transform racist institutions.

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  • Penelope Muzanenhamo & Rashedur Chowdhury, 2022. "Leveraging from Racism: A Dual Structural Advantages Perspective," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 36(1), pages 167-178, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:woemps:v:36:y:2022:i:1:p:167-178
    DOI: 10.1177/09500170211061089
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    1. Rashedur Chowdhury, 2021. "From Black Pain to Rhodes Must Fall: A Rejectionist Perspective," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 170(2), pages 287-311, May.
    2. Ann E. Austin, 2002. "Preparing the Next Generation of Faculty," The Journal of Higher Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 73(1), pages 94-122, January.
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    1. Rashedur Chowdhury, 2023. "Misrepresentation of Marginalized Groups: A Critique of Epistemic Neocolonialism," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 186(3), pages 553-570, September.
    2. Penelope Muzanenhamo & Rashedur Chowdhury, 2023. "A Critique of Vanishing Voice in Noncooperative Spaces: The Perspective of an Aspirant Black Female Intellectual Activist," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 183(1), pages 15-29, February.

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