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Nelson, Byron

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“…It also bears emphasizing that workplace racism is deeply embedded in structures and systems of institutions such that it becomes part of White employers' "normative culture" (p. 32). In this respect, as Nelson and Nelson (2004) elaborate, "[t]he systemic and structural racism prevalent in institutions such as government departments, educational institutions, corporate boardrooms, hospital wings, religious organizations, media outlets and family networks is often so entrenched that it becomes part of the normative culture of an organization" (p. 32). This normative culture systematically devalues racialized embodiments, achievements, accomplishments, and perspectives-ever so subtly and insidiously-in ways that profoundly transcend the meaning and scope of terms such as "prejudice" and "racism" (Stewart, 2004).…”

Section: Privation Of Inclusion: Utility Of the Framework And The Nex...mentioning

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Privation of Inclusion: An Exploration of the Stealth and the Strategy that Sabotaged Racialized Public Servants’ Career Mobility in British Columbia, Canada

Asey

2022

Administration & Society

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This paper qualitatively examines “privation of inclusion” at work in the lived experiences of racialized participants hired in publicly funded places of employment. Taking the position that the dualistic inclusion-exclusion paradigm fails to capture their lived realities with inclusive exclusions and exclusive inclusions, it presents privative inclusion as a third space, between inclusion and exclusion, for a more robust framework in understanding how racialized bodies were marked and targeted for differential treatment. The paper then outlines and discusses findings as key indicators of privative mechanisms that had undermined life chances by limiting career mobility of racialized participants of this study. It concludes by emphasizing the need for additional research in this area given the salience of racism at work as well as the demographic changes that Canada is currently experiencing.

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Section: Privation Of Inclusion: Utility Of the Framework And The Nex...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Privation of Inclusion: An Exploration of the Stealth and the Strategy that Sabotaged Racialized Public Servants’ Career Mobility in British Columbia, Canada

Asey

2022

Administration & Society

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“…Part of the reason for the invisibility of workplace racial violence is the emergence of "not racism" as a primary and prevalent form of denying, deflecting and (re)defining racial discrimination in ways that are divorced from the realities of life as experienced by racialized individuals (Lentin, 2018). More particularly, unless one is directly impacted by the sting of racism in Canada, the prevailing myth in the country appears to be that racial discrimination is no longer a relevant fact of life here (Brown & Brown, 1996;Henry, 2017;Henry & Tator, 2010;Lentin, 2018;Nelson & Nelson, 2004).…”

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The Wretched of the Work: Anger, Fear, and Hopelessness as Impacts of Experiencing Workplace Racism in British Columbia, Canada

Asey

2022

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Drawing inspiration from Frantz Fanon’s work on the colonization of racialized subjects, this article illuminates how racial discrimination impacted the wretched of the work, in reference to a group of racialized civil servants, in primarily White institutions of public service in British Columbia, Canada. Specifically, using data from twenty-five in-depth qualitative interviews, the article presents findings on the affective impacts of workplace racism on this group of participants. In this regard, anger is discussed as internalized, nonviolent and pent-up frustration over oppressive everyday microprocesses that presented significant workplace barriers to racialized workers. Subsequently, fear is outlined as shaped by the lingering concerns on the part of racialized subjects over the very real prospects that their employers could retaliate against participants using any pretext and at any given time. Lastly, hopelessness is explicated as the feeling of disempowerment driven by the belief that workplace inequities would persist irrespective of what participants did to seek equal and respectful treatment at work. Ultimately, through outlining findings as anger, fear, and hopelessness, this article adds to the existing body of scholarship on how workplace racism not only leaves an indelible mark on racialized targets but also why it wreaks havoc in employment relations, further reinforcing existing empirical literature on the debilitating impacts of workplace racism. Lastly, in view of the fact that racialized public servants have received scant research attention, the findings underscore the need for publicly-funded employers to address White supremacy and institutional domination in their midst on a priority basis.

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Privation of Inclusion: An Exploration of the Stealth and the Strategy that Sabotaged Racialized Public Servants’ Career Mobility in British Columbia, Canada

Privation of Inclusion: An Exploration of the Stealth and the Strategy that Sabotaged Racialized Public Servants’ Career Mobility in British Columbia, Canada

The Wretched of the Work: Anger, Fear, and Hopelessness as Impacts of Experiencing Workplace Racism in British Columbia, Canada

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