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A Noteworthy Absence : How and why Race and Racism is Ignored by Public Administration Scholarship
Author(s) -
Witt Matthew T.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2011.00784.x
Subject(s) - scholarship , racism , administration (probate law) , race (biology) , shadow (psychology) , relevance (law) , political science , psychology , public administration , public relations , sociology , law , gender studies , psychotherapist
This article examines the substantial lack of inquiry by public administration scholarship into how race shapes and has been shaped by U.S. public institutions, laws and public administration. The paper finds that pertinent matters of racism have evolved in the shadow of public administrative practices, and that the relevance, each for the other, warrants substantially more inquiry.