
Racial Emotion at Work
Dismantling Discrimination and Building Racial Justice in the Workplace
Tristin K. Green(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Published on 3. October 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
230 pages
978-0-520-38524-5 (ISBN)
Description
Takes White Fragility to the next level, placing emotional conversations about race squarely in the realm of employment discrimination law-exploring how implicit bias and diversity trainings are insufficient tools for battling inequality in the workplace.
Racial Emotion at Work is an invitation to understand our own emotions and associated behaviors around race-and much more. With this surprising and timely book, Tristin K. Green takes us beyond diversity trainings and other individualized solutions to discrimination and inequality in employment, calling for sweeping changes in how the law and work organizations treat and shape racial emotions.
Green provides readers with the latest research on racial emotions in interracial interactions and ties this research to thinking about discrimination and disadvantage at work. We see how our racial emotions can result in discrimination, and how our institutions-the law and work organizations-value and skew our racial emotions in ways that place the brunt of negative consequences on people of color. It turns out we need to reset our institutional and not just our personal radars on racial emotion to advance racial justice. Racial Emotion at Work shows how we can rise to the task.
Racial Emotion at Work is an invitation to understand our own emotions and associated behaviors around race-and much more. With this surprising and timely book, Tristin K. Green takes us beyond diversity trainings and other individualized solutions to discrimination and inequality in employment, calling for sweeping changes in how the law and work organizations treat and shape racial emotions.
Green provides readers with the latest research on racial emotions in interracial interactions and ties this research to thinking about discrimination and disadvantage at work. We see how our racial emotions can result in discrimination, and how our institutions-the law and work organizations-value and skew our racial emotions in ways that place the brunt of negative consequences on people of color. It turns out we need to reset our institutional and not just our personal radars on racial emotion to advance racial justice. Racial Emotion at Work shows how we can rise to the task.
Reviews / Votes
"This research goes beyond the more familiar research on implicit bias, cognitive biases, and automatic associations. . . . Green argues that if courts-and employers-would at least recognize racial emotions as a part of a broader system of subordination, they would reach better outcomes." * Jotwell * "Green encourages readers to expand their perceptions of racially assaulting (more obvious) and racially invalidating (more subtle) actions, and contends that both categories of behavior contribute to environments that support discriminatory conduct, policies, and legal outcomes. . . . Recommended." * CHOICE *More details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 151 mm
Width: 229 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
322 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-38524-5 (9780520385245)
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Tristin K. Green
Racial Emotion at Work
Dismantling Discrimination and Building Racial Justice in the Workplace
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10/2023
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Naval Institute Press
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Tristin K. Green is Professor of Law at LMU Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and author of Discrimination Laundering: The Rise of Organizational Innocence and the Crisis of Equal Opportunity Law.
Content
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I. RACIAL EMOTION AT WORK
1. What Is Racial Emotion?
2. Racial Emotion and Our Relations at Work
PART II. OUR INSTITUTIONS AND RACIAL EMOTION
The Law and Racial Emotion
3. Law: Closing Racial Emotion Out of Antidiscrimination Concern
4. Law: The Racist Call and Caring for Racial Emotion of Whites
Work Organizations and Racial Emotion
5. Work Organizations: Constructing Emotion Repertoires
6. Work Organizations: Valuing Racial Emotion
PART III. CONSIDERING WHAT'S WRONG AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
7. What's Wrong with the Current Approach
8. What We Can Do
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography and Case List
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I. RACIAL EMOTION AT WORK
1. What Is Racial Emotion?
2. Racial Emotion and Our Relations at Work
PART II. OUR INSTITUTIONS AND RACIAL EMOTION
The Law and Racial Emotion
3. Law: Closing Racial Emotion Out of Antidiscrimination Concern
4. Law: The Racist Call and Caring for Racial Emotion of Whites
Work Organizations and Racial Emotion
5. Work Organizations: Constructing Emotion Repertoires
6. Work Organizations: Valuing Racial Emotion
PART III. CONSIDERING WHAT'S WRONG AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
7. What's Wrong with the Current Approach
8. What We Can Do
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography and Case List
Index