Race in the Contemporary Workplace
The company that employed investigators to ensure their employees were living clean, sober lives.
What is Ford?
These three strategies are commonly used by gay professional employees to negotiate their workplace identity.
What is avoidance, counterfeiting, and integration?
This term refers to the unearned cultural, legal, social, and institutional rights extended to a group based on their social group membership.
What is privilege?
Brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities.
What is microaggression?
This strategy involves gay employees providing minimal personal information to colleagues, often using gender-neutral terms for partners.
What is Avoidance?
The unearned advantages white people have in society that are often invisible to them, and can perpetuate racism and oppression, even if they themselves are not directly responsible for historical injustices like slavery.
What is white privilege?
This country’s immigrants were considered “the Chinese of Europe”
What is Italians?
Gay professionals may adopt this strategy by attempting to pass as heterosexual through physical fitness or expensive clothing.
What is Counterfeiting?
According to the dialogue, white privilege doesn’t mean a person has never experienced hardship, but rather that their race was never the reason for these struggles.
What is the reason that white privilege does not mean a lack of struggle or hardship in one's life?
The final stage of organizational socialization?
What is Exit?
This process occurs when gay employees disclose their identity at work, either directly or indirectly, conforming to cultural expectations.
What is integration?
The concept of white privilege is being questioned, arguing that because one's family did not have direct involvement with historical institutions like slavery, they should not be be held accountable for its legacy.
What is the confusion regarding accountability for systemic racism?