Book chapter
Theorizing Street Cred: Exploring the Impact of Barriers to Entry and Advancement of (Hopeful) Black Arts Administrators
Arts Management, Cultural Policy, & the African Diaspora, pp 311-328
01 Jan 2022
Abstract
Barriers to field entry and career advancement are often considered an indicator of a professionalizing field. However, these barriers are routinely weaponized against Black people seeking employment or career advancement. This chapter explores anti-Blackness and many ways this phenomenon permeates the arts administration leadership pipeline in the United States. Utilizing Wilensky’s (The professionalization of everyone? American Journal of Sociology, 70(2), 137–158, 1964) theory of professionalization, I demonstrate how the semi-professional status of the field has permitted long-standing inequities that prevent Black individuals from embarking upon and thriving in arts management careers. This chapter explores, calls out, discusses, and demonstrates the connections between those barriers in order to address the following question: What must change for the arts management field to better reflect the general population, specifically the Black population, in the United States?
The chapter concludes with a call to action developed by combining research from diversity management, sociology of the professions, and human resources to begin dismantling systemic anti-Blackness in the field of arts management.
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Details
- Title
- Theorizing Street Cred: Exploring the Impact of Barriers to Entry and Advancement of (Hopeful) Black Arts Administrators
- Creators
- Brea M. Heidelberg - Drexel University
- Contributors
- Antonio C. Cuyler (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Arts Management, Cultural Policy, & the African Diaspora, pp 311-328
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing; Cham
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Arts and Entertainment Enterprise
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85160135031
- Other Identifier
- 991021895782404721