A burgeoning literature at the intersection of the sociology of race and organizations explores the organization’s role in (re)producing racial inequalities. The present article builds from this growing literature in its analysis of the formation of National Public Radio (NPR), to better understand how organizational actors translate racialized practices into new organizations at their foundation, even when they seek greater racial inclusivity. I coin a new analytical concept, white institutional isomorphism, to analyze how organizations that embrace a mission of diversity may end up reproducing racially exclusionary practices. White institutional isomorphic pressures are racialized norms that shape the standards and practices adopted across organizations within a given field. Using organizational meeting minutes, external reports, oral histories, and founder memoirs, I show that early implementation of station membership criteria, hiring practices, and programming priorities, while considered race-neutral decisions by the founders that shared a white habitus, inhibited the inclusion of nonwhite voices into NPR’s workforce, station membership, and programming.

在种族和组织社会学的交汇处，新兴文学探索了组织在（重新）产生种族不平等中的作用。本文基于对国家公共广播电台（NPR）的形成进行分析的不断增长的文献，以更好地理解组织参与者如何将种族化做法转化为基础的新组织，即使他们寻求更大的种族包容性也是如此。我提出了一个新的分析概念，即白人制度同构，以分析承担多样性使命的组织如何最终再现种族排斥行为。白色的制度同构压力是种族化的规范，它塑造了给定领域内各个组织所采用的标准和实践。使用组织会议记录，外部报告，口述历史，