How race shows up in meritocratic belief systems

Oppel, Annalena ORCID: 0000-0002-7603-0551 (2025) How race shows up in meritocratic belief systems. LSE Inequalities (19 Feb 2025). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

In a meritocracy, success results from talent and hard work alone; other circumstances do not matter. But how is this meant to make sense for racialised minorities whose talent and hard work, historically, have been largely decoupled from reward? For young Black adults in South Africa, the very idea of meritocracy rests on a precarious kind of “double consciousness”, argues Annalena Oppel.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author
Divisions:	International Inequalities Institute
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Date Deposited:	07 Apr 2025 14:45
Last Modified:	07 Apr 2025 14:45
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/127840

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