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Boyd, K. (2018). Using critical race theory to solve our profession's critical race issues. Journal of Financial Planning, 31(5), 13–14.

• The author discusses ways to apply CRT to diversity and inclusion efforts in financial planning.

 

Branker, R. R. (2017). Labour market discrimination: The lived experiences of English-speaking Caribbean immigrants in Toronto. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 18(1), 203–222. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-016-0469-x

• The study examines “the lived experiences of immigrants in Toronto from Jamaica, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago, with emphasis on their perceptions and experiences of labor market discrimination.” Study strongly suggests that “there is an issue of racism and sexism at play in the Canadian labor market that negatively affects outcomes for Caribbean immigrants in Toronto.”

 

Byrd, M. Y. (2009). Telling our stories of leadership: If we don’t tell them they won’t be told. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 11(5), 582–605. https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422309351514

• This study explores the interlocking system of race, gender, and social class by examining the leadership experiences of 10 African American women in predominantly White organizations. The most salient encounters that the women in this study experienced were “disempowering encounters, being excluded from the good ole boy social network, being the only one, needing validation, and demythicizing… stereotypical images.”

 

Dar, S., Liu, H., Martinez Dy, A., & Brewis, D. N. (2020). The business school is racist: Act up. Organization, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508420928521

• The authors call upon scholars of color to recognize the ways business schools are structured by White supremacy and devalue the knowledge and experiences of scholars of color.

 

Davis, J. F. (2018). Selling Whiteness? – A critical review of the literature on marketing and racism. Journal of Marketing Management, 34(1-2), 134–177. https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2017.1395902

• This article provides a critical review of the literature concerning marketing and racism, grounded in theoretical foundations drawn from CRT, Whiteness theory, and attendant models of privilege and oppression in society. The extant literature “indicates a relationship between racism, marketing and social hierarchies which manifest with regard to marketing representations of people of color and racialized groups; discriminatory practices in the marketplace and the roles of marketing professionals of color.”

 

Falck, C. (2012). Equitable access: Examining information asymmetry in reverse redlining claims through critical race theory. Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights, 18(1), 101–120.

• This article discusses lawsuits alleging that banks engaged in predatory lending—that is, offering subprime loans to individuals who either could have qualified for a fairly administered loan or who should not have qualified for any loan. It explores the issue through CRT and neoclassical economics. It criticizes “several assumptions underlying the neoclassical approach, focusing on the realities disadvantaged minority plaintiffs face and detail attributes that make courts well suited to serve as institutions for reform.” The article endorses “a more active role on the part of judges in addressing the information asymmetry faced by plaintiffs who bring reverse-redlining claims.”

 

Francis, J. N. P., & Robertson, J. T. F. (2021) White spaces: How marketing actors (re)produce marketplace inequities for Black consumers. Journal of Marketing Management, 37(1-2), 84–116. https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2020.1863447

• This paper “interrogates how racially discriminatory practices by real estate agents, lenders, and retailers produce and reproduce marketplace inequities for Black consumers.” Drawing on CRT and interdisciplinary research, the paper reveals “the normalization and permanence of racism in practices and policies aimed at protecting White spaces.” When viewed through a CRT lens, the authors conclude that “in the American context, the invisible hand of the market is not invisible. Rather, it is White.”

 

Grier, S. A., & Poole, S. M. (2020) Reproducing inequity: The role of race in the business school faculty search. Journal of Marketing Management, 36(13-14), 1190–1222, https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2020.1800796

• The authors examine the role of race in faculty hiring in order to identify barriers that hinder racial diversity within business schools. They use CRT as an analytic framework “to examine the ways racial inequality is reproduced through specific practices in the business school search process.”

 

Harney, S., & Dunne, S. (2013). More than nothing? Accounting, business, and management studies, and the research audit. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 24(4-5), 338–349. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2011.06.007

• The authors studied 2,331 journal articles in business and management from 2003 and 2004 published in the 20 most popular journals. Of all articles, CRT and postcolonial studies figured only 1.5% of the time.

 

Lewis, A. M. (2015). ‘Counting Black and White beans’: Why we need a critical race theory of accounting. European Journal of Contemporary Economics and Management, 2(2), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.19044/elp.v2no2a1

• In the U.S., few Black certified public accountants exist in proportion to their White peers and only a handful ever reach the level of partner in large accounting firms. It is a problem that has been left unproblematized. Instead, “assumptions of racial neutrality and an unshakable faith in accountancy as a value free technocracy, untouched by social reality abound.” A CRT critical framework “(re) problematizes poor Black entry and progression, seeking the formation of new strategies to challenge the stratified reality of a gendered and raced profession.”

 

Lewis, A. (2020). When will we be able to breathe in accounting? Provoking an honest conversation about race and racism in the profession. The CPA Journal, 90(9), 36–41.

• Lewis calls for accounting to be intersectional in nature, to address racism directly, and to demand a profession of actual equality.

 

Liu, H., & Baker, C. (2016). White knights: Leadership as the heroicisation of Whiteness. Leadership, 12(4), 420–448. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742715014565127

• The authors conducted a discourse analysis of the media representations of 12 business leaders engaged in philanthropy in Australia “to demonstrate how White practices of normalization, solipsism and ontological expansiveness underpin the construction of White leaders as speaking for society, mastering all environments and self-sacrificing for the greater good.”

 

Logan, N. (2016). The Starbucks Race Together Initiative: Analyzing a public relations campaign with critical race theory. Public Relations Inquiry, 5(1), 93–113. https://doi.org/10.1177/2046147X15626969

• Logan employs CRT to analyze the Starbucks Race Together Initiative as well as reactions to it in the news media and on Twitter.

 

Logan, N. (2019). Corporate personhood and the corporate responsibility to race. Journal of Business Ethics, 154(4), 977–988. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-018-3893-3

• Logan draws upon CRT, among other theoretical perspectives, to introduce the corporate responsibility to race concept. She discusses how corporations like Starbucks, AT&T, and Ben & Jerry’s have attempted to demonstrate a responsibility to race.

 

Mahin, S. L., & Ekstrand, V. S. (2021). Old law, new tech, and citizen-created hashtags: #BlackLivesMatter and the case for provisional hashtag marks. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 98(1), 13–36. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699020928166

• Using #BlackLivesMatter as a case study, this research “documents the tensions and harms associated with trademarking online social movement hashtags.” Grounded in the work of CRT and intellectual property scholars, it analyzes “the inconsistencies in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office application practice. The contradictions signal “a limited or ‘mis’understanding of the utility of citizen-created hashtags and online social movement slogans.” The authors propose “a provisional networked trademark that would grant limited protection to social movements to show that their marks demonstrate the kind of secondary meaning required for a traditional trademark.”

 

Poole, S. M., Grier, S. A., Thomas, K. D., Sobande, F., Ekpo, A. E., Torres, L. Trujillo., Addington, L. A., Weekes-Laidlow, M., & Henderson, G. R. (2021). Operationalizing critical race theory in the marketplace. Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 40(2), 126–142. https://doi.org/10.1177/0743915620964114

• To understand and transform the insidious ways in which race operates, the authors “examine its impact in marketplaces and how these effects are shaped by intersecting forms of systemic oppression.” They introduce CRT to the marketing community as a useful framework for understanding consumers, consumption, and contemporary marketplaces.

 

Pouncy, C. R. P. (2002). Institutional economics and critical race/LatCrit theory: The need for a critical "raced" economics. Rutgers Law Review, 54(4), 841–852.

• The author discusses how institutional economics “is well positioned to permit the development of policy instruments that can be used both to deepen our descriptive analyses and to concretize our efforts at constructing systemic policy interventions.”

 

Safransky, S. (2020). Geographies of algorithmic violence: Redlining the smart city. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 44(2), 200–218. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12833

• This article examines the broader phenomenon through the case of a proprietary market value assessment that is being used to guide development in cities across the U.S. The author argues that “the racial, infrastructural, and epistemological violence associated with this evaluation can potentially lead to a new kind of municipal redlining.” The article “brings insights from CRT theory into conversation with critical scholarship on algorithms by analyzing how algorithmic violence works through data‐driven planning technologies to depoliticize and leverage power while further entrenching racism and inequality.”

 

Syed, I. U. (2016). Labor exploitation and health inequities among market migrants: A political economy perspective. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 17(2), 449–465. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-015-0427-z

• This paper “theorizes a novel connection of health inequities experienced by racialized and immigrant peoples in Canada as a result of globalization and market liberalism.” Employing a political economy perspective, this paper suggests the exploitation of “Market Migrants” in Canada.

 

Tyler, S. S., Rivers, L., III., Moore, E. A., & Rosenbaum, R. (2014). Michigan Black farm owners' perceptions about farm ownership credit acquisition: A critical race analysis. Race, Gender & Class, 21(3-4), 232–251. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43496994

• Using a critical race methodology to interpret 11 semi-structured interviews with Black Michigan farm owners, the authors investigate experiential perceptions of farm ownership loans. Findings indicate that “farmers hesitate to use government farm loans, because of histories of racialized experiences, racial discriminatory lending practices, and non-existent outreach from Farm Service Agency lenders.” Farmers' perceptions suggest a serious need for greater fairness and better education in the administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture farm loan programs.