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No more invisible man : race and gender in men's work / Adia Harvey Wingfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wingfield, Adia Harvey, 1977-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans in the professions.
- African American professional employees.
- African American men--Employment.
- African American men.
- Discrimination in employment--United States.
- Discrimination in employment.
- Glass ceiling (Employment discrimination)--United States.
- Glass ceiling (Employment discrimination).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (212 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The "invisible men" of sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield's urgent and timely No More Invisible Man are African American professionals who fall between extremely high status, high-profile black men and the urban underclass. Her compelling interview study considers middle-class, professional black men and the challenges, obstacles, and opportunities they encounter in white male-dominated occupations.No More Invisible Man chronicles these men's experiences as a tokenized minority in the workplace to show how issues of power and inequality exist-especially as they rela
- Contents:
- Tokenism reassessed
- The general experience of partial tokenization
- Interacting with women
- Other men in the workplace
- Black men and masculinity
- Emotional performance
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781299104297
- 1299104290
- 9781439909744
- 1439909741
- OCLC:
- 818883170
- Publisher Number:
- heb40338 hdl
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