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Whiteness in Scotland: shame, belonging and diversity management in a Glasgow workplace.
- Source :
- Ethnic & Racial Studies; Aug2014, Vol. 37 Issue 8, p1371-1390, 20p
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- This paper uses analysis of interview transcripts and notes from participant observation to explore white reactions to the introduction of diversity management in a large public sector workplace in Glasgow. The paper analyses white talk about racial equality in a social context where the shaming, exclusion and demonization of disadvantaged groups including migrants, asylum seekers and the poor have ensured that issues of entitlement and race are highly charged. It is suggested that in such contexts diversity management is being wielded as a new kind of civility by middle-class people invested in the objectification of poor whites. This represents a form of class conflict over belonging within the body of whiteness that risks reinforcing rather than redressing racial resentments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- RACIAL identity of white people
DIVERSITY in the workplace
SOCIAL belonging
SOCIAL classes
CULTURAL pluralism -- Social aspects
RACE & society
SCOTS
EMPLOYEE attitudes -- Social aspects
SOCIOLINGUISTICS
RACISM
RACIAL & ethnic attitudes
TWENTY-first century
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
HISTORY
MANAGEMENT
SOCIAL history
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01419870
- Volume :
- 37
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Ethnic & Racial Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 96652926
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2012.734381