ABSTRACT
The necessity for affirmative action policies illustrates that whiteliness is the bedrock of organizational culture and is embedded within institutional structures and processes as well as knowledge production and canonization which in combination enable racism ‘to melt into thin air’. What institutionalized anti-racist policy and practice within institutions has done is to seek institutional transformation through changing structures and processes which militate against equality of access, process, and outcome because of the impact of whiteliness. Glissantian creolization is an ongoing relational process which inscribes the principle of non-hierarchical unity with a relation of equality with and respect for the other as different from oneself within a natural openness to other cultures. Whiteliness is at the center of our putatively ‘post-race’ world and indeed has mythologized ‘post-race’ as a new form of ‘racialized governmentality’ which rules black, minority ethnic and white psyches, social spaces, and institutions alike.
