Racial Resentment at Work

Overview & Shownotes

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.

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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
• 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

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