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Wingfield, Adia Harvey, 1977-
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Discrimination in employment.
Equality -- United States.
Blacks -- Employment -- Interviews.
United States -- Race relations.
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Wingfield, Adia Harvey, 1977-
Discrimination in employment.
Equality -- United States.
Blacks -- Employment -- Interviews.
United States -- Race relations.
MARC Display
Gray
areas
:
how
the
way
we
work
perpetuates
racism
and
what
we
can
do
to
fix
it / Adia Harvey Wingfield.
by
Wingfield, Adia Harvey, 1977-
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023.
Call #:
331.60973 W771g
Subjects
Discrimination in employment.
Equality -- United States.
Blacks -- Employment -- Interviews.
United States -- Race relations.
ISBN:
9780063079816 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
x, 293 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-282) and index.
Summary:
"A leading sociologist reveals why racial inequality persists in the workplace despite today’s multi-billion-dollar diversity industry -- and provides actionable solutions for creating a truly equitable, multiracial future. Labor and race have shared a complex, interconnected history in America. For decades, key aspects of
work
-- from getting a job to workplace norms to advancement and mobility -- ignored and failed Black people. While explicit discrimination no longer occurs, and organizations make internal and public pledges to honor and achieve “diversity,” inequities persist through
what
Adia Harvey Wingfield calls the “gray
areas
:” the relationships, networks, and cultural dynamics integral to companies that are now more important than ever. The reality is that Black employees are less likely to be hired, stall out at middle levels, and rarely progress to senior leadership positions. Wingfield has spent a decade examining inequality in the workplace, interviewing over two hundred Black subjects across professions about their
work
lives. In
Gray
Areas
, she introduces seven of them: Alex, a worker in the gig economy Max, an emergency medicine doctor; Constance, a chemical engineer; Brian, a filmmaker; Amalia, a journalist; Darren, a corporate vice president; and Kevin, who works for a nonprofit. In this accessible and important antiracist
work
, Wingfield chronicles their experiences and blends them with history and surprising data that starkly show
how
old models of
work
are outdated and detrimental. She demonstrates the scope and breadth of
gray
areas
and offers key insights and suggestions for
how
they
can
be fixed, including shifting hiring practices to include Black workers; rethinking organizational cultures to centralize Black employees’ experience; and establishing pathways that move capable Black candidates into leadership roles. These reforms would create workplaces that reflect America’s increasingly diverse population -- professionals whose needs organizations today are ill-prepared to meet. It’s time to prepare for a truly equitable, multiracial future and move our culture forward. To
do
so,
we
must address the
gray
areas
in our workspaces today. This definitive
work
shows us
how
."--Publisher.
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