Racial Resentment at Work

Political scientists Clarissa Peterson and Emmitt Y. Riley, III join Andy on today’s show to discuss racial resentment at work. Dr. Peterson and Dr. Riley explain that racial resentment is an especially pervasive issue and a form of racism that makes its way into nearly every corner of modern life in America–even the workplace. On this episode and every episode, we dig into the complicated moral issues people face at work.

Shownotes

• Clarissa Peterson is a Professor of Political Science at DePauw University
• Emmitt Y. Riley is an Assistant Professor and Director of Africana Studies and a contributing faculty member in the Political Science department at DePauw University
• We’re revisiting a case from an earlier episode with the scholar Alison Bailey about white talk at work
• Some of Peterson and Riley’s research on racial resentment can be found in this article
• Michael Tesler, Post-Racial or Most-Racial?
• System justification theory
• Ira Katznelson, When Affirmative Action Was White

If you have a workplace dilemma you need some help with, send your story to our producer Kate at katherineberry@depauw.edu.

For this episode’s transcript, click here.

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