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No more invisible man: race and gender in men's work
"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 relate to promotion, mobility, and developing occupational networks. Wingfield's intersectional analysis deftly charts the ways that gender, race, and class collectively shape black professional men's work experiences. In its examination of men's interactions with women and other men, as well as men's performances of masculinity and their emotional demeanors in these jobs, No More Invisible Man extends our understanding of racial- and gender-based dynamics in professional work."--Provided by publisher
Doing business with beauty: black women, hair salons, and the racial enclave economy
In: Perspectives on a multiracial America
Reconsidering the "Positive Effects of Multiple Negatives": Assessing the Sociological Study of Black Professional Women
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 129, Heft 3, S. 965-970
ISSN: 1537-5390
Will America Work? Racial and Economic Equity in a Post-COVID World
In: Social currents: official journal of the Southern Sociological Society, Band 8, Heft 6, S. 515-529
ISSN: 2329-4973
Due to a variety of structural, political, and economic changes, the US is currently in the midst of record levels of economic inequality. At the same time, the country is rapidly becoming more racially diverse (and dealing with the backlash of these demographic changes). In this article, I use Kalleberg's (2003) framework of "good jobs" and "bad jobs" in conjunction with several sociological theories of race and racism to assess the implications of these changes. I suggest that the United States is at an inflection point that will either result in a shift toward policies that produce more racial and economic parity, or a commitment to forces that will further entrench these inequalities.
The (Un)Managed Heart: Racial Contours of Emotion Work in Gendered Occupations
In: Annual review of sociology, Band 47, Heft 1, S. 197-212
ISSN: 1545-2115
The concept of emotional labor has been very useful for elucidating how the expansion of a service economy perpetuated new forms of work that maintained gender divisions and inequalities. Research has been slower to catch up to the ways that emotional labor has racial implications as well, but recent studies are making important contributions and moving the literature in this direction. In this review, I consider how increasing racial diversity in the US population informs how emotion work is performed in the current economy. I also discuss how other macrostructural changes such as the rise of aesthetic labor, the gig economy, and the overwhelming growth of the service industry can reshape our understanding of the intersections between race and gender in emotional labor.
Public Sociology When the "Public" Is under Attack: Response to Hartmann
In: The sociological quarterly: TSQ, Band 58, Heft 1, S. 24-27
ISSN: 1533-8525
Prophetic Research and Postracial Policy
In: Contemporary sociology, Band 44, Heft 4, S. 470-472
ISSN: 1939-8638
Book Review: Digesting Race, Class, and Gender: Sugar as Metaphor
In: Gender & society: official publication of Sociologists for Women in Society, Band 26, Heft 1, S. 125-126
ISSN: 1552-3977
The Store in the Hood: A Century of Ethnic Business and Conflict
In: Contemporary sociology, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 81-82
ISSN: 1939-8638
The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work. By Miliann Kang. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2010. Pp. xvi+309. $24.95 (paper)
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 116, Heft 5, S. 1695-1697
ISSN: 1537-5390
Represent: Art and Identity Among the Black Upper-Middle Class
In: Contemporary sociology, Band 39, Heft 5, S. 547-548
ISSN: 1939-8638
Black Beauty: Aesthetics, Stylization, Politics
In: Contemporary sociology, Band 39, Heft 1, S. 86-87
ISSN: 1939-8638
Racializing the Glass Escalator: Reconsidering Men's Experiences with Women's Work
In: Gender & society: official publication of Sociologists for Women in Society, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 5-26
ISSN: 1552-3977
Many men who work in women's professions experience a glass escalator effect that facilitates their advancement and upward mobility within these fields. Research finds that subtle aspects of the interactions, norms, and expectations in women's professions push men upward and outward into the higher-status, higher-paying, more "masculine" positions within these fields. Although most research includes minority men, little has explicitly considered how racial dynamics color these men's encounters with the mechanisms of the glass escalator. In this article, the author examines how intersections of race and gender combine to shape experiences for minority men in the culturally feminized field of nursing and finds that the upward mobility implied by the glass escalator is not uniformly available to all men who do "women's work." The author concludes that the glass escalator is a racialized concept and a gendered one and considers the implications of this for future studies of men in feminized occupations.