Critical conversations in MOS : a dual-interview on the continuing struggles against anti-Blackness and racial capitalism

Abstract

Our special issue critically engages with anti-Blackness in MOS by approaching it from a structural analysis of racial capitalism and how this has been developed by radical Black feminist thought. Our call for papers invited contributions from management scholars and activists that address the systemic discrimination against Black people in organizations and academia, focus on Black peoples’ experiences of embodying difference in these spaces, and highlight efforts at building local and trans-national solidarities against racism and white supremacy. To access different kinds of knowledges about the special issue themes, the guest editors curated a dual-interview between esteemed academic, Professor Stella Nkomo, and up and coming race scholar, PhD student, Patricia Naya. The interview is a collective reflection on the intersection of MOS and anti-Blackness. Both interviewees approached this intersection by centering their positionalities as Black women and reflected on how Black scholarship is innately connected to the struggle to transform academia toward racially just ends.