TY  - CHAP
AB  - 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.
VL  - 60
SN  - 978-1-78756-492-3, 978-1-78756-491-6/0733-558X
DO  - 10.1108/S0733-558X20190000060007
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20190000060007
AU  - Abad Melissa V.
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - Race, Knowledge, and Tasks: Racialized Occupational Trajectories
T2  - Race, Organizations, and the Organizing Process
T3  - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 111
EP  - 130
Y2  - 2024/05/11
ER  -