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Racialized Burdens: Applying Racialized Organization Theory to the Administrative State

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  • Ray, Victor Erik
  • Herd, Pamela
  • Moynihan, Donald

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Administrative burdens allow a form of hidden politics to shape people’s experience of the state. But what do those politics hide? In this paper we seek to partly answer this question by developing the concept of racialized burdens. Racialized burdens are the experience of learning, compliance and psychological costs, which serve as tools to reinforce racial inequality; they are the handmaidens of the racialized state. To develop this concept, we examine the role of administrative burdens in the US state from the theoretical perspective of racialized organizations. This framework puts the focus on the effects of organizations on individuals, rather than using individual agency – of the client, or bureaucrat – as the starting point for analysis. Using examples from attempts to access citizenship rights – via immigration, voting and the social safety net – we show how burdens have historically been used to normalize and facilitate racially disparate outcomes from public organizations that promise fair and equal treatment.

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  • Ray, Victor Erik & Herd, Pamela & Moynihan, Donald, 2020. "Racialized Burdens: Applying Racialized Organization Theory to the Administrative State," SocArXiv q3xb8, Center for Open Science.
  • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:q3xb8
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/q3xb8
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    1. Heinrich, Carolyn J. & Camacho, Sayil & Binsted, Kaitlin & Gale, Shadlan, 2022. "An audit test evaluation of state practices for supporting access to and promoting Covid-19 vaccinations," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 301(C).
    2. Holt, Stephen B & Vinopal, Katie M., 2021. "It's About Time: Examining Inequality in the Time Cost of Waiting," SocArXiv jbk3x, Center for Open Science.

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