A H Wingfield
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5077 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A H Wingfield |
| NOMBRES | A H |
| APELLIDO | Wingfield |
| FIRMA | WINGFIELD A H |
| AFILIACIONES | Georgia State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1532-6989 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 543 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Race, Education, and Microaggression Experiences in Everyday Life
Microaggressions are subtle, discriminatory actions that occur in everyday interactions and play a significant role in the maintenance of racial hierarchies. Previous research has often focused on identifying these experiences among specific racial groups in distinct environments, such as schools or workplaces. Yet, there has been limited comparison of these experiences across various social domains, racial groups, and socioeconomic backgrounds. …
The Doctor Will See You Now--Or Will They? Theorizing AI’s Impact on Black Patients and Providers in Health Care
As far as recent innovation practices go, artificial intelligence (AI) represents one of the major disruptions reshaping various aspects of human life. Health care is perhaps one of the industries where AI stands to be most transformative, particularly as it is increasingly used to diagnose illnesses, assist in creating treatment plans, reduce human error, and offer routine patient services. Yet despite its rapid growth, AI technology still refle…
Does Wanting Diversity Mean Racial Diversity? How Race and Gender Influence Support for Corporate DEI Policies
In the wake of recent social movements, cultural changes, and emerging organizational norms, decisive majorities of White workers now agree with the premise that companies should strive for workplace diversity. That support rarely translates into an interest in race-conscious programming, yielding what sociologists describe as a “principle/policy gap.” Yet most of the research identifying principle/policy gaps relies on predominantly White sample…
After DEI
In the wake of organized backlash and federal opposition, many organizations are taking steps to downplay or dismantle their existing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programming. While there are some exceptions, many institutions have largely chosen to retreat from DEI rather than embrace it. This stance has prompted disputes over DEI’s effectiveness, shortcomings, and potential. In this address, I argue that debates over the merits of DEI…
Can DEI Save Lives? Diversity and Health Care Professions
[It's] Always Better When Something is Organic
Millennial workers, more so than their generational predecessors, say that it is important to work in environments that prioritize diversity and inclusion. Their stated support for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) plus their sizable presence in the work force suggests they might theoretically be motivated to engage in occupational activism, particularly by pressing firms to implement policies that advance diversity. Yet many organizations r…
Race, Repression and the Future of New Labor Activism
Labor activism is on the rise in the U.S., and workers and organizers are taking new and intriguing steps to have more voice, involvement, and power in their workplaces. This begs the question of whether this new surge in labor activism will have long-term consequences or amount to a 'flash in the pan.' In this paper, I argue that the success of current labor activism will hinge on two factors: whether organizers successfully confront longstandin…
Reconsidering the 'Positive Effects of Multiple Negatives
Will America Work? Racial and Economic Equity in a Post-Covid World”
Due to a variety of structural, political, and economic changes, the US is currently in the midst of record levels of economic inequality. At the same time, the country is rapidly becoming more racially diverse (and dealing with the backlash of these demographic changes). In this article, I use Kalleberg’s (2003) framework of “good jobs” and “bad jobs” in conjunction with several sociological theories of race and racism to assess the implications…
You Don't Look Like a Lawyer
The (Un)Managed Heart
The concept of emotional labor has been very useful for elucidating how the expansion of a service economy perpetuated new forms of work that maintained gender divisions and inequalities. Research has been slower to catch up to the ways that emotional labor has racial implications as well, but recent studies are making important contributions and moving the literature in this direction. In this review, I consider how increasing racial diversity i…
Getting In, Getting Hired, Getting Sideways Looks
This article argues that black workers' perceptions of racial discrimination derive not just from being in the minority, but also from their position in the organizational structure. Researchers have shown that black individuals encounter an enormous amount of racial discrimination in the workplace, including but not limited to exclusion from critical social networks, wage disparities, and hiring disadvantages. But fewer studies examine the exten…
Where Work Has Been, Where It Is Going
Although sociologists have devoted a great deal of attention to the processes and patterns associated with work (both paid and unpaid), it is crucial to bridge that with the extensive research that documents how work is constructed through racial, gendered, and classed practices. Sociological thinkers have offered important empirical contributions that highlight how intersections of race, gender, and class shape how work is defined, who has acces…
Who’s ‘having’? Who’s ‘being’? A response to Lamont
Reclaiming Our Time
In this presidential address, I use the metaphor of 'reclaiming my time' as a framework that highlights the ways black women are playing an essential role transforming workplaces, media, and politics in the current moment. I consider how black feminist thought provides a useful starting point for assessing these efforts, and I examine how black women's leadership offers a blueprint for how other groups also can restructure social institutions in …
School Daze
The author formally decided on sociology when she was a junior in high school. But in retrospect, she realizes that there were several other incidents that led her to this field. Armed with the unflinching certainty that only a teenager can have, the author began college firmly believing that she would study sociology, understand the field better, and engage in interesting and important projects that exposed various machinations of racial inequal…
Blatant, Subtle, and Insidious
Although modest gains are observed in the number of African American, Mexican American, and Puerto Rican faculty in higher education institutions, systemic issues of underrepresentation and retention remain problematic. This article describes how historically underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in Predominantly White Institutions perceive discrimination and illustrates the ways in which discriminatory institutional practices-such as microaggr…
Public Sociology When the “Public” Is under Attack
In his presidential address, Douglas Hartmann refines existing theoretical approaches to provide a more precise framework of public sociology. In this response piece, I consider several of his key points and elaborate on their implications for contemporary society. Specifically, I address whether distinctions between types of sociology remain essential and consider the challenges associated with doing public sociology in an increasingly fractured…
Race, gender, and class in entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is often touted as an economic opportunity that embodies American ideals of individualism and financial gain. Yet social scientists have long noted divergent entrepreneurial outcomes among various groups. In this paper, we consider how race informs entrepreneurship for minority business owners. In particular, we focus on the ways black entrepreneurs use racial counterframes as a means of defining various aspects of the entreprene…
Prophetic Research and Postracial Policy
Still a Man's World? Revisiting Men Who Do Women's Work
In 1995, Christine Williams built on the well‐versed theory of tokenism and introduced the concept of the glass escalator to describe the social processes by which men maintain advantages in female‐dominated occupations. This paradigm has proven extraordinarily useful as a way of understanding the pathways that reproduce men's opportunities and benefits in culturally feminized jobs. In this paper, we review the literature in this area and conside…
When visibility hurts and helps
Research shows groups who experience minority status encounter tokenization. Most studies applying token theory to minority groups at work focus on either gendered or racialized processes of tokenization. We offer a different approach by using an intersectional lens to examine how both race and gender work together to shape ways Black professional men experience tokenization when employed in predominantly White male-dominated workplaces. Based on…
Maintaining Hierarchies in Predominantly White Organizations
Predominantly White workplaces are environments in which Whiteness is privileged in numerous ways. Studies show workers of color doing self-presentation, emotion work, and other forms of social interaction intended to help ease the difficulties associated with being in the minority. In addition to the expectation that they smooth interactions with White peers, workers of color are assigned positions and tasks which reinforce that racial status qu…
Comment on Feagin and Elias
Despite the centrality and significance that race continues to hold in shaping social life in the USA, theoretical analyses of race are surprisingly few and far between in sociology. Researchers ha...
Moving Past Picket Fences
The literature on the meaning of “home” has generally focused on creating lists without giving much attention to the context that shapes meanings. Recently, scholars have argued that to understand “home” it is important to know the range of meanings that different people in different contexts give it. In this article, we focus on the meaning of “home” for public housing residents and consider how they construct the meaning of “home” and if they f…
Are Some Emotions Marked 'Whites Only'? Racialized Feeling Rules in Professional Workplaces
Much of the research on emotion work in organizations has focused on the ways in which emotional performance reproduces gender inequality. Yet, most of these studies overlook the racial character of professional workplaces and how emotion work is experienced by racial/ethnic minorities. In this article, I examine how the normative feeling rules that guide emotional performance in professional workplaces are racialized rather than neutral or objec…
Racializing the Glass Escalator
Many men who work in women's professions experience a glass escalator effect that facilitates their advancement and upward mobility within these fields. Research finds that subtle aspects of the interactions, norms, and expectations in women's professions push men upward and outward into the higher-status, higher-paying, more 'masculine' positions within these fields. Although most research includes minority men, little has explicitly considered …
Getting In, Getting Hired, Getting Sideways Looks
This article argues that black workers' perceptions of racial discrimination derive not just from being in the minority, but also from their position in the organizational structure. Researchers have shown that black individuals encounter an enormous amount of racial discrimination in the workplace, including but not limited to exclusion from critical social networks, wage disparities, and hiring disadvantages. But fewer studies examine the exten…
Maintaining Hierarchies in Predominantly White Organizations
Predominantly White workplaces are environments in which Whiteness is privileged in numerous ways. Studies show workers of color doing self-presentation, emotion work, and other forms of social interaction intended to help ease the difficulties associated with being in the minority. In addition to the expectation that they smooth interactions with White peers, workers of color are assigned positions and tasks which reinforce that racial status qu…
The (Un)Managed Heart
The concept of emotional labor has been very useful for elucidating how the expansion of a service economy perpetuated new forms of work that maintained gender divisions and inequalities. Research has been slower to catch up to the ways that emotional labor has racial implications as well, but recent studies are making important contributions and moving the literature in this direction. In this review, I consider how increasing racial diversity i…
The Racial Dialectic
Blatant, Subtle, and Insidious
Although modest gains are observed in the number of African American, Mexican American, and Puerto Rican faculty in higher education institutions, systemic issues of underrepresentation and retention remain problematic. This article describes how historically underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in Predominantly White Institutions perceive discrimination and illustrates the ways in which discriminatory institutional practices-such as microaggr…
Race, gender, and class in entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is often touted as an economic opportunity that embodies American ideals of individualism and financial gain. Yet social scientists have long noted divergent entrepreneurial outcomes among various groups. In this paper, we consider how race informs entrepreneurship for minority business owners. In particular, we focus on the ways black entrepreneurs use racial counterframes as a means of defining various aspects of the entreprene…
When visibility hurts and helps
Research shows groups who experience minority status encounter tokenization. Most studies applying token theory to minority groups at work focus on either gendered or racialized processes of tokenization. We offer a different approach by using an intersectional lens to examine how both race and gender work together to shape ways Black professional men experience tokenization when employed in predominantly White male-dominated workplaces. Based on…
Getting Angry to Get Ahead
This article draws on two years of ethnographic fieldwork to explore how a group of black men on a college campus displayed anger in order to encourage other black men to adopt a respectable form of masculinity. Although prior research suggests that black men may work to avoid public displays of anger to evade negative stereotypes of black men, we uncover the contexts in which black men were comfortable expressing feelings of anger, frustration, …
Moving Past Picket Fences
The literature on the meaning of “home” has generally focused on creating lists without giving much attention to the context that shapes meanings. Recently, scholars have argued that to understand “home” it is important to know the range of meanings that different people in different contexts give it. In this article, we focus on the meaning of “home” for public housing residents and consider how they construct the meaning of “home” and if they f…
The Understudied Case of Black Professional Men
This paper considers potential new areas for sociology of work research. Specifically, we review some key studies in the sociology of work that identify the processes by which workplaces and labor markets recreate racial and gendered inequality. We then examine the ways that intersectionality theory has generated additional insights into how certain groups are disadvantaged at work. Finally, we make the case that using an intersectional approach …
Still a Man's World? Revisiting Men Who Do Women's Work
In 1995, Christine Williams built on the well‐versed theory of tokenism and introduced the concept of the glass escalator to describe the social processes by which men maintain advantages in female‐dominated occupations. This paradigm has proven extraordinarily useful as a way of understanding the pathways that reproduce men's opportunities and benefits in culturally feminized jobs. In this paper, we review the literature in this area and conside…
Bringing Minority Men Back in
In 2007, controversial shock jock Don Imus generated a media firestormwith his on-air reference to the Black players on the Rutgers University women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hoes. ” When his remarks ignited controversy, he attempted to defend himself by stating that while he regretted his words, Black men, particularly Black rappers, call Black women worse and are never censored. This was not the first time Imus, a white man, made such …
Race, Repression and the Future of New Labor Activism
Labor activism is on the rise in the U.S., and workers and organizers are taking new and intriguing steps to have more voice, involvement, and power in their workplaces. This begs the question of whether this new surge in labor activism will have long-term consequences or amount to a 'flash in the pan.' In this paper, I argue that the success of current labor activism will hinge on two factors: whether organizers successfully confront longstandin…
Reclaiming Our Time
In this presidential address, I use the metaphor of 'reclaiming my time' as a framework that highlights the ways black women are playing an essential role transforming workplaces, media, and politics in the current moment. I consider how black feminist thought provides a useful starting point for assessing these efforts, and I examine how black women's leadership offers a blueprint for how other groups also can restructure social institutions in …
Where Work Has Been, Where It Is Going
Although sociologists have devoted a great deal of attention to the processes and patterns associated with work (both paid and unpaid), it is crucial to bridge that with the extensive research that documents how work is constructed through racial, gendered, and classed practices. Sociological thinkers have offered important empirical contributions that highlight how intersections of race, gender, and class shape how work is defined, who has acces…
You Don't Look Like a Lawyer
Bringing Minority Men Back in
In 2007, controversial shock jock Don Imus generated a media firestormwith his on-air reference to the Black players on the Rutgers University women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hoes. ” When his remarks ignited controversy, he attempted to defend himself by stating that while he regretted his words, Black men, particularly Black rappers, call Black women worse and are never censored. This was not the first time Imus, a white man, made such …
Racializing the Glass Escalator
Many men who work in women's professions experience a glass escalator effect that facilitates their advancement and upward mobility within these fields. Research finds that subtle aspects of the interactions, norms, and expectations in women's professions push men upward and outward into the higher-status, higher-paying, more 'masculine' positions within these fields. Although most research includes minority men, little has explicitly considered …
Black Beauty
Represent
Are Some Emotions Marked 'Whites Only'? Racialized Feeling Rules in Professional Workplaces
Much of the research on emotion work in organizations has focused on the ways in which emotional performance reproduces gender inequality. Yet, most of these studies overlook the racial character of professional workplaces and how emotion work is experienced by racial/ethnic minorities. In this article, I examine how the normative feeling rules that guide emotional performance in professional workplaces are racialized rather than neutral or objec…
The Understudied Case of Black Professional Men
This paper considers potential new areas for sociology of work research. Specifically, we review some key studies in the sociology of work that identify the processes by which workplaces and labor markets recreate racial and gendered inequality. We then examine the ways that intersectionality theory has generated additional insights into how certain groups are disadvantaged at work. Finally, we make the case that using an intersectional approach …
The Racial Dialectic
The Store in the Hood
Comment on Feagin and Elias
Despite the centrality and significance that race continues to hold in shaping social life in the USA, theoretical analyses of race are surprisingly few and far between in sociology. Researchers ha...
Moving Past Picket Fences
The literature on the meaning of “home” has generally focused on creating lists without giving much attention to the context that shapes meanings. Recently, scholars have argued that to understand “home” it is important to know the range of meanings that different people in different contexts give it. In this article, we focus on the meaning of “home” for public housing residents and consider how they construct the meaning of “home” and if they f…
Getting Angry to Get Ahead
This article draws on two years of ethnographic fieldwork to explore how a group of black men on a college campus displayed anger in order to encourage other black men to adopt a respectable form of masculinity. Although prior research suggests that black men may work to avoid public displays of anger to evade negative stereotypes of black men, we uncover the contexts in which black men were comfortable expressing feelings of anger, frustration, …
Still a Man's World? Revisiting Men Who Do Women's Work
In 1995, Christine Williams built on the well‐versed theory of tokenism and introduced the concept of the glass escalator to describe the social processes by which men maintain advantages in female‐dominated occupations. This paradigm has proven extraordinarily useful as a way of understanding the pathways that reproduce men's opportunities and benefits in culturally feminized jobs. In this paper, we review the literature in this area and conside…
When visibility hurts and helps
Research shows groups who experience minority status encounter tokenization. Most studies applying token theory to minority groups at work focus on either gendered or racialized processes of tokenization. We offer a different approach by using an intersectional lens to examine how both race and gender work together to shape ways Black professional men experience tokenization when employed in predominantly White male-dominated workplaces. Based on…
Maintaining Hierarchies in Predominantly White Organizations
Predominantly White workplaces are environments in which Whiteness is privileged in numerous ways. Studies show workers of color doing self-presentation, emotion work, and other forms of social interaction intended to help ease the difficulties associated with being in the minority. In addition to the expectation that they smooth interactions with White peers, workers of color are assigned positions and tasks which reinforce that racial status qu…
Prophetic Research and Postracial Policy
Public Sociology When the “Public” Is under Attack
In his presidential address, Douglas Hartmann refines existing theoretical approaches to provide a more precise framework of public sociology. In this response piece, I consider several of his key points and elaborate on their implications for contemporary society. Specifically, I address whether distinctions between types of sociology remain essential and consider the challenges associated with doing public sociology in an increasingly fractured…
Race, gender, and class in entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is often touted as an economic opportunity that embodies American ideals of individualism and financial gain. Yet social scientists have long noted divergent entrepreneurial outcomes among various groups. In this paper, we consider how race informs entrepreneurship for minority business owners. In particular, we focus on the ways black entrepreneurs use racial counterframes as a means of defining various aspects of the entreprene…
Blatant, Subtle, and Insidious
Although modest gains are observed in the number of African American, Mexican American, and Puerto Rican faculty in higher education institutions, systemic issues of underrepresentation and retention remain problematic. This article describes how historically underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in Predominantly White Institutions perceive discrimination and illustrates the ways in which discriminatory institutional practices-such as microaggr…
School Daze
The author formally decided on sociology when she was a junior in high school. But in retrospect, she realizes that there were several other incidents that led her to this field. Armed with the unflinching certainty that only a teenager can have, the author began college firmly believing that she would study sociology, understand the field better, and engage in interesting and important projects that exposed various machinations of racial inequal…
Who’s ‘having’? Who’s ‘being’? A response to Lamont
Reclaiming Our Time
In this presidential address, I use the metaphor of 'reclaiming my time' as a framework that highlights the ways black women are playing an essential role transforming workplaces, media, and politics in the current moment. I consider how black feminist thought provides a useful starting point for assessing these efforts, and I examine how black women's leadership offers a blueprint for how other groups also can restructure social institutions in …
Getting In, Getting Hired, Getting Sideways Looks
This article argues that black workers' perceptions of racial discrimination derive not just from being in the minority, but also from their position in the organizational structure. Researchers have shown that black individuals encounter an enormous amount of racial discrimination in the workplace, including but not limited to exclusion from critical social networks, wage disparities, and hiring disadvantages. But fewer studies examine the exten…
Where Work Has Been, Where It Is Going
Although sociologists have devoted a great deal of attention to the processes and patterns associated with work (both paid and unpaid), it is crucial to bridge that with the extensive research that documents how work is constructed through racial, gendered, and classed practices. Sociological thinkers have offered important empirical contributions that highlight how intersections of race, gender, and class shape how work is defined, who has acces…
Will America Work? Racial and Economic Equity in a Post-Covid World”
Due to a variety of structural, political, and economic changes, the US is currently in the midst of record levels of economic inequality. At the same time, the country is rapidly becoming more racially diverse (and dealing with the backlash of these demographic changes). In this article, I use Kalleberg’s (2003) framework of “good jobs” and “bad jobs” in conjunction with several sociological theories of race and racism to assess the implications…
You Don't Look Like a Lawyer
Sociology (27 obras) · Political science (21 obras) · Gender Studies (18 obras) · Law (14 obras) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (13 obras) · Psychology (13 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Racism (8 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras)