ACTING WHITE: A BOOK IN 300 OR SO WORDS. WORDS BY A SHADES FRIEND
Carbado, D. W., & Gulati, M. (2015). Acting white?: Rethinking race in postracial America. Oxford University Press. First things first, this is not really a book but a critical thesis on race and equality in the workplace. It’s central premise is how we all have a working identity but those of us who are in a minority within the working environment work harder, have greater dichotomies and with this additional requirement thrust upon us often compromise ourselves, our true identities or our race in order to fit in. 106 // PEEKABOO WE SEE YOU: WHITENESS
Although it uses a US legal basis for how it examines the issues of balancing these divergent requirements of self-identity and working identity the situations this creates are actually pertinent to all those who are within a typical working environment this side or the other of the Atlantic. Whilst exploring and defining a working identity it tries and occasionally fails to hit the mark by resorting to extremes when viable day to day scenarios can and do exist that would perfectly elaborate the point being made – this may be the requirement
