From threatening protestors to cutting diversity office funding on college campuses, one contemporary brand of policymaking has overtly sought to undermine social justice efforts in higher education. Current popular policymaking theories, however, are inadequate to understand this phenomenon, as they under-theorize the role of racialized power in policymaking. Pushing on Policymaking Theory: Contemporary Efforts to Stymie Change Using a Racialized Policymaking Framework explores these theoretical limitations and possibilities for understanding policymaking as a racialized process.