There is a unanimous agreement among scholars that social equity scholarship is essential to the study of public administration. One area of weakness in the social equity literature is its inability to develop a theoretical understanding of the complexities of race, gender, and ethnicity. This viewpoint addresses the call of Pandey, Bearfield, and Hall (2022), arguing “concept of race in public administration remains woefully undertheorized” by exploring key tenets of Postcolonial theory. Postcolonial theory can bolster social equity literature by providing a much-needed theoretical framework to systematically understand the marginalization and subordination of people of color for centuries through representation, production of knowledge, and power. The postcolonial theory also challenges the portrayal of all non-White minorities as one collective hegemonic identity and, therefore, can provide a sound theoretical grounding to social equity scholarship.

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后殖民理论对社会公平的研究有何贡献？

学者们一致认为，社会公平奖学金对于公共行政研究至关重要。社会公平文献的一个弱点是它无法对种族、性别和民族的复杂性形成理论理解。这一观点回应了 Pandey、Bearfield 和 Hall (2022) 的呼吁，通过探索后殖民理论的关键原则，认为“公共行政中的种族概念仍然严重缺乏理论化”。后殖民理论可以通过提供一个急需的理论框架来支持社会公平文献，以系统地理解几个世纪以来有色人种通过代表性、知识生产和权力的边缘化和从属地位。