Moloney, Kim and Lewis, Rupert
Social equity, intellectual history, black movement leaders, and Marcus Garvey
- American Review of Public Administration
- 54(3), Apr, 2024: p.215-228
This paper engages the U.S.-focused social equity literature and its ahistorical understanding of its pre-1968 intellectual histories. We use racial contract theory to highlight the epistemological necessity of a disciplinary reconsideration. We suggest that intellectual histories bound to an exclusively academic voice negate a fuller understanding of lived realities. By engaging the work of a Jamaican-born activist like Marcus Garvey and his significant inroads into 1910s and 1920s America, we create an updated historical understanding of social equity that challenges the disciplinary script.- Reproduced
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02750740231208033