Reading list
Shortform reading
This is an incomplete list of the shortform reading (and listening and watching) I’ve been doing lately.
20% of White Employees Have Sponsors. Only 5% of Black Employees Do.
Executive sponsorship is by far the most effective intervention a company can make to advance Black talent, but only 5% of up-and-coming Black employees succeed in winning sponsorship. Black managers cannot look to senior Black colleagues for sponsorship, and white executives don't tend to advocate for them either. Creating more access to sponsorship is not going to happen organically. Significant progress depends on companies giving urgent priority to well-financed interventions that create access to senior level advocacy for Black managers and executives.
- Sociologist Sarah Mayorga examines the coded ways white people engage with their Black and Latinx neighbors.
#anti-black-racism · #anti-latino-racism · #race · #whiteness
How The Politics Of White Liberals And White Conservatives Are Shaped By Whiteness
The authors explore how white Americans across the political spectrum view their whiteness, and how they react to others' perceptions of their whiteness. They discuss the ways people react to things like the association between whiteness and privilege.