Redoing and abolishing whiteness in leadership

Liu, H

Redoing and abolishing whiteness in leadership

Liu, H

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Citation:: After Leadership, 2018, pp. 101 - 114
Issue Date:: 2018-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Liu, H https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4211-0932	en_US
dc.date.issued	2018-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	After Leadership, 2018, pp. 101 - 114	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781138087811	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/129564
dc.description.abstract	© 2019 Taylor & Francis. White supremacy is systemic and operates in and through everyday racism to maintain a normalised orientation to ‘white superiority, virtue, moral goodness and action’. The leadership studies remained oblivious to the growing field of critical race theory, which sought to interrogate white supremacy in our culture. Critical race theory in contrast attends to the discourses, structures and cultures constituting dominant notions of leadership. There are at least two approaches to dismantling the imperialist, white supremacist ideologies that shaped our social relations: redoing whiteness and abolishing whiteness. Redoing whiteness requires us to reflexively interrogate the practices of whiteness and reinvent ways of doing whiteness differently. Redoing expansiveness means practising contraction: being smaller, softer and quieter. Abolishing whiteness circumvents the tendency to venerate white saviours as good white anti-racists and instead calls for white people to become traitors to the white race.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	After Leadership	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.4324/9781315110196	en_US
dc.title	Redoing and abolishing whiteness in leadership	en_US
dc.type	Chapter
utslib.for	1503 Business and Management	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business/Management Discipline
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Abstract:

© 2019 Taylor & Francis. White supremacy is systemic and operates in and through everyday racism to maintain a normalised orientation to ‘white superiority, virtue, moral goodness and action’. The leadership studies remained oblivious to the growing field of critical race theory, which sought to interrogate white supremacy in our culture. Critical race theory in contrast attends to the discourses, structures and cultures constituting dominant notions of leadership. There are at least two approaches to dismantling the imperialist, white supremacist ideologies that shaped our social relations: redoing whiteness and abolishing whiteness. Redoing whiteness requires us to reflexively interrogate the practices of whiteness and reinvent ways of doing whiteness differently. Redoing expansiveness means practising contraction: being smaller, softer and quieter. Abolishing whiteness circumvents the tendency to venerate white saviours as good white anti-racists and instead calls for white people to become traitors to the white race.

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