Extant research indicates that white racial framing is utilized to rationalize discrimination, but less work has examined how the white racial frame becomes filtered into institutional settings such as corporations and instilled within its programs and practices. This paper analyzes white racial framing in the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company during the early twentieth century as part of its effort to Americanize and control its racially diverse workforce. The company developed a special unit headed by a physician and proponent of eugenics to promote “social betterment.” Our findings show how dominant racial ideologies were embedded within the company's conceptualization of social betterment and how these ideas influenced corporate programs aimed at mollifying the workforce and increasing productivity. We discuss the implications of our research for future analyses of historically embedded racial framing.

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在移民工人中增强美国身份：20世纪初的科罗拉多州燃料和钢铁公司

现有的研究表明，白人种族框架被用于合理化歧视，但是较少的工作研究了白人种族框架如何被过滤到诸如公司之类的机构环境中并灌输到其程序和实践中。本文分析了二十世纪初科罗拉多州燃料和钢铁公司的白人种族框架，作为其美国化和控制其种族多样化的劳动力的努力的一部分。该公司成立了一个由医师和优生学支持者领导的特别部门，以促进“社会改善”。我们的研究结果表明，主要的种族意识形态是如何嵌入公司的社会改善概念中的，以及这些想法如何影响旨在缓解劳动力和提高生产率的公司计划。