No one should be excluded from opportunities to advance professionally. But advancement is far from fair in many American workspaces, especially for the frontline workers whose concerns are often ignored or pushed aside. In this blog post, we'll discuss why this situation exists and what employers can do better to support these workers of color on the frontline.
5 Strategies for Discussing Race in the Workplace
Exhibiting racial prejudice in racial insults and verbal attacks on others are examples of overt racism. When "well-meaning" people who have professed an aversion to being regarded as racist behave with bias, they are engaging in "aversive racism." According to Pierce, in 1970, the word "microaggressions" was invented to describe a type of aversive racism that is difficult to ignore.