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Race, Knowledge, and Tasks: Racialized Occupational Trajectories

Melissa V. Abad

Race, Organizations, and the Organizing Process

ISBN: 978-1-78756-492-3, eISBN: 978-1-78756-491-6

ISSN: 0733-558X

Publication date: 20 May 2019

Abstract

Scholars of race and work have shown that social categories shape how individuals interact with coworkers and clients. Social categories also inform the creation of roles within an organization when nonwhites are hired to interact with other nonwhites. This study examines these roles, or racialized labor, and illustrates how racial categories govern organizational behavior. By studying immigrant-serving providers at a range of nonprofits, this chapter shows how the assumed relationship between racial category and knowledge is evidence of ethnoracial logics, or the practice of using racial categories to organize work because of assumptions about the inherent racial ethnic knowledge an employee possesses. To make the case for these logics, the chapter draws on ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews with Latino, Latina, and White nonprofit professionals to show how expertise is developed and differentiated along racial lines.

Keywords

  • Race/ethnicity
  • Organizations
  • Occupations
  • Immigration
  • Suburbs
  • Latinoa/s
  • Suburbs

Citation

Abad, M. (2019), "Race, Knowledge, and Tasks: Racialized Occupational Trajectories", Race, Organizations, and the Organizing Process (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 60), Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 111-130. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20190000060007

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