No More Invisible Man: Race and Gender in Men's Work

No More Invisible Man: Race and Gender in Men's Work

The â€œinvisible menâ€ of sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfieldâ€™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 maleâ€“dominated occupations.

No More Invisible Man chronicles these menâ€™s experiences as a tokenized minority in the workplace to show how issues of power and inequality existâ€”especially as they relate to promotion, mobility, and developing occupational networks. Wingfieldâ€™s intersectional analysis deftly charts the ways that gender, race, and class collectively shape black professional menâ€™s work experiences.

In its examination of menâ€™s interactions with women and other men, as well as menâ€™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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Temple University Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-11-30
Format Kindle eBook

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