Race Ethnicity and Inequality in the Workplace

<p>This issue examines patterns of on-going racial and ethnic inequality in the increasingly heterogeneous American workplace. The six articles in this sensitive and thoughtful issue of <strong>American Behavioral Scientist</strong> entitled <em>Race Ethnicity and Inequality in the Workplace: Evolving Issues</em> and edited by George Wilson of Miami University analyze the various aspects of this modern discrimination including the dynamics of hiring promotions and job dismissals; the aspects of work that impact child development; how politics influences the enforcement of Equal Employment Opportunity standards; the intentional/unintentional use of statistics to reinforce inequalities; and the continuing wage gap for Latinas and African American females.</p><p>The penetrating articles investigate important topics such as:</p><p>· Why African American males continue to be handicapped in the promotion/upward mobility process (Smith)</p><p>· Why African-American males are more vulnerable to job dismissals because of layoffs firings downsizing retrenchments and mergers than White males (Wilson)</p><p>· Why African American children of parents in prestigious/high-status occupations do not have the same school/academic performances and health outcomes as White children with parents with similar occupations (Conley and Yeung)</p><p>· The role political environments play in enforcing racial and ethnic equality laws and the variegated patterns of segregation since the 1960s (Stainback Robinson and Tomaskovic-Devey</p><p>· How racial ethnic and gender-based statistics are used to enable inconspicuous but effective institutional discriminatory policies (Baumle and Fossett)</p><p>· Trends and causes of wage inequality among Latina and African American females compared to White females from the 1990s to the present (Browne and Askew)</p><p>As the evidence in these papers shows both overt and subtle inequities based on race and ethnicity still exist in the American workplace. This issue of American Behavioral Scientist is a useful tool to examine the intricacies and impacts of this modern discrimination and should be included in every sociology and business library!</p>