Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It

A leading sociologist reveals why racial inequality persists in the workplace despite today's multi-billion-dollar diversity industry-and provides actional solutions for creating a truly equitable, multiracial future.

Labor and race have shared a complex, interconnected history in America. For decades, key aspects of work-from getting a job to workplace norms to advancement and mobility-ignored and failed Black people. While explicit discrimination no longer occurs, and organizations make in...