Saha, A orcid.org/0000-0001-7704-2493 and van Lente, S (2022) Diversity, media and racial capitalism: a case study on publishing. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 45 (16). pp. 216-236. ISSN 0141-9870
Abstract
This article demonstrates the ambivalence of diversity in the cultural industries, and racial capitalism more broadly. Based upon an empirical study of the production of writers of colour in UK trade publishing, the article highlights how diversity acts as a form of racial governance but is also a source of anxiety for the dominant culture. Opening with an overview of critical approaches to diversity, we then introduce the study, based upon in-depth interviews with 113 people, which explores how publishers make sense of diversity, which includes moral and economic arguments. While publishers are convinced that both the moral and economic cases for diversity are aligned, we argue that they exist in a tension, which results in mostly reductive outcomes for minoritized authors. But the article also highlights how diversity potentially disrupts the liberal sensibilities of the dominant culture, especially their sense of publishing as meritocratic.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
Keywords: | Diversity; racial capitalism; cultural industries; publishing; meritocracy; race and media |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 19 Jul 2022 10:53 |
Last Modified: | 28 Jul 2022 14:12 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/01419870.2022.2032250 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:189165 |
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