Riad, Sally; Jones, Deborah - In: Journal of Management History 19 (2013) 3, pp. 394-415
Purpose – The authors use the debates instigated by Bernal's Black Athena to rethink the concepts of “race”, “culture … essentializing race, culture and diversity. The paper examines these through binaries including white/black, nature/culture, purity …. Whereas culture is considered progressive, as a user‐friendly term it has served as a “surrogate” or “homologue” for race …