Details, and offers vignettes to illustrate, how patriarchy and
white supremacy have restricted Black women at work, both
historically and currently. Around water coolers and over glasses
of wine, Black women come together and process the ways in which
their labor is taken for granted and their excellence called into
question. Black Women at Work: On Refusal and Recovery makes the
direct connection between these contemporary experiences and the
long legacy of Black labor exploitation. Through the trafficking
and enslavement of Africans, European Americans laid the inhumane
foundation of their present-day wealth and privilege and
established oppressive labor dynamics for workers that persist to
this day. In Black Women at Work, Wendi S. Williams moves the
conversation beyond the stubborn audacity of inequity, focusing
instead on the powerful history and example of Black women’s
labor and refusal practices and on the potent role that choice and
voice can play in dismantling seemingly impenetrable systems of
unfairness. Through the interweaving of personal narratives and
social media reflections, Williams crafts a larger narrative of
recovery and refusal that articulates a liberatory path toward
recovery and reclamation through refusal—a path that will
ultimately help to bring us all closer to freedom. Offers a
common-sense, theoretically based systems analysis of Black women's
experiences in the workplace Articulates reasonable and realistic
approaches to remedying intersectional inequity for Black women
(and others) in the workplace Provides a generalizable framework to
make individual and systemic changes and/or cope within a range of
employment contexts Includes vignettes from dozens of women the
author has counseled or worked with in diversity groups Ties into
contemporary activism, such as #BlackGirlsMagic and
#ListentoBlackWomen
General
Imprint: |
Praeger Publishers Inc
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 2023 |
Authors: |
Wendi S. Williams
|
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
137 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4408-7599-1 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-4408-7599-5 |
Barcode: |
9781440875991 |
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