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Getting In, Getting Hired, Getting Sideways Looks: Organizational Hierarchy and Perceptions of Racial Discrimination:

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The authors argued that black workers' perceptions of racial discrimination derive not only from being in the minority, but also from their position in the organizational structure, and they argued that such perceptions can be attributed to race discrimination.
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This article argues that black workers’ perceptions of racial discrimination derive not just from being in the minority, but also from their position in the organizational structure. Researchers ha...

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Economy and Society

TL;DR: The four Visegrad states (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary) form a compact area between Germany and Austria in the west and the states of the former USSR in the east as discussed by the authors.
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Still a Man’s World: Men Who Do Women’s Work

TL;DR: The author concludes that health professionals and patients will benefit from a *reframing of the customary provider-patient relationship to recognize patients' authorimtive agency and engage it as a resource in identifying and working towards common goals.
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Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society

TL;DR: Pincus, an associate professor of sociology, explains early that the book was written from a pro-affirmative action perspective and describes himself as an outspoken advocate of affirmative action as mentioned in this paper.
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The mark of a criminal record

TL;DR: The authors found that ex-offenders are one-half to one-third as likely to receive initial consideration from employers relative to equivalent applicants without criminal records, and that even blacks without a criminal record fare no better-and perhaps worse than do whites with criminal records.
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The Enigma of Diversity: The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial Justice:

TL;DR: The Enigma of Diversity: The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial Justice, by Ellen Berrey as discussed by the authors, is a good starting point for this paper, but it does not address the issues raised in this paper.
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HIERARCHIES, JOBS, BODIES: A Theory of Gendered Organizations

TL;DR: The authors argues that organizational structure is not gender neutral; on the contrary, assumptions about gender underlie the documents and contracts used to construct organizations and to provide the commonsense ground for theorizing about them.
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The Truly Disadvantaged

TL;DR: The Truly Disadvantaged as discussed by the authors examines the relationship between race, employment, and education from the 1950s to the 1990s, with surprising and provocative findings about the convergence of race and poverty.
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Economy and Society

TL;DR: The four Visegrad states (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary) form a compact area between Germany and Austria in the west and the states of the former USSR in the east as discussed by the authors.
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Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination

TL;DR: The authors study race in the labor market by sending fictitious resumes to help-wanted ads in Boston and Chicago newspapers and find that white names receive 50 percent more callbacks for interviews than African-Americans.
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