On this episode, Delina and Erika talk about trials and tribulations of getting and job and having a job in the white working world. From interviewing, salary negotiations, and maintaining your integrity, let’s talk about Workin’ 9 to 5…while Black. Press play!
Homework
Tell us a time when you felt singled out:
- being one of the few Black people in a a work environment?
- with the expectation of representing the entire race?
Have you ever had to take a job that might have been harmful to other Black people because you were trying to feed your family?
Receipts
Black Harvard graduates have the same shot at a job call-back as white state college grads
Author: Sonali Kohli
Date: March 7, 2015
Interviewing while Black: How race affects salary negotiations
Black Workers Really Do Need to Be Twice as Good (The Atlantic)
Author: Gillian B. White
Date: October 7, 2015
Interviewing while Black: How race affects salary negotiations (cnn.com)
Author: Derek Avery
Date: December 26, 2018
How Black Women Describe Navigating Race and Gender in the Workplace (Harvard Business Review)
Author: Maura Cheeks
Date: March 26, 2018
This Is What It’s Like To Search For A Job As A Black Woman (Fast Company)
Author: Brittney Oliver
Date: December 7, 2017
20 Ways to Know You’re Black in Corporate America
The wage gap between white and black men is growing wider (The Economist)
Date: June 7, 2018
Using technology to combat bias in hiring (MIT News)
Author: Nicole Morell
Date: March 23, 2018
Wagner Act (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (eeoc.gov)
New York City to Ban Hair Discrimination (New York Times)
Author: Stacey Stowe
Date: February 19, 2019
Three quarters of whites don’t have any non-white friends (The Washington Post)
Author: Christopher Ingraham
Date: August 25, 2014
Racial, gender wage gaps persist in U.S. despite some progress (Pew Research Center)
Author: Eileen Patten
Date: July 1, 2016
Hiring Bias Blacks And Latinos Face Hasn’t Improved In 25 Years (Forbes)
Author: Erik Sherman
Date: September 16, 2017
Study: anti-black hiring discrimination is as prevalent today as it was in 1989 (vox.com)
Author: German Lopez
Date: September 18, 2017