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Working While Black: The Black Person's Guide to Success in the White Workplace (Black Person's Guides)
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by Michelle T. Johnson
Sales Rank: 112652
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List Price: $14.95
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Cover Type: Paperback with 240 pages
Published by: Lawrence Hill Books January 1, 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1556525109
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1556525100
Book Dimensions:
8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
Weighs: 10.1 ounces
Reader Reviews
I was searching for "The Pact" when I saw this book, and I'm so glad I found it. I just left a temp. job for a mortgage company where 16 out of 25 employees had said something completely insensitive to black people, homosexuals, or people whose first language wasn't English. I'd grown so fed up with them down-talking other cultures that I told the temp. company I was working for that I was quitting. Luckily for me, the next week I found a permanent job in my field and accepted the position. I was relieved to find perm. work but even more relieved that I'd never have to go back to that place again. I took my anger out in writing and ended up writing an article (later published) about the racism, sexism, and narrow-mindedness that I experienced in that company that was equal to the same negative experience I watched at Northern Michigan University. So I swallowed every single word of this book and the author was RIGHT on the money. I thought the anecdotes were very helpful because they illustrated the different types of discrimination in the workplace and why it can hurt/help a legal case. It also showed that folks who are going through situations like the ones I saw in college and with the temp. job are not alone. Even when discussing such technical topics as legal issues, the author throws in a great amount of humor, which makes this book even easier to read. Lil' Kim had me dying laughing at work. I had to excuse myself from my desk so I could laugh out loud some more. The James Baldwin quote was hot...I totally dig that. I realized that after going to NMU, I'd turned into a thriver. I refused to put up with anything. I went through several jobs after college and decided to try being a survivor at the temp. company. After the first month, the thriver bumrushed the survivor in me, and I just started lashing out. Although the comments died down, they only stayed away from black people and increased in the other two. I've learned the hard way that many folks are idiots and thrivers are the best ones to handle them. I'm far too contumacious to be a striver. And now that I have the job I wanted (editor) and the freelance job I love (writing opinion editorials), I'm content as a thriver. The only flaw I saw in this book was on pg. 105 when the author says that Roland and Lisa have "a lot in common..just by the two of them being the only black interns in a big company." I thought the author should've pointed out that other 85% issue because just because the two interns were black does not mean that they would have a "lot" in common. I've worked with a bunch of brothas & sistas that I would NEVER hang out with, so why should Roland try to make friends because of skin complexion? That other 85% is big in folks going out to lunch. I also thought the author was inaccurate with saying that stress was the major factor in black people being overweight--food is. Black folks have some of the WORST eating habits...and that by far outweighs stress and smoking. When we eat, we smoke. When we are stressed, we eat. And when we're happy, we eat more. And I'm not talking about carrots either. Watch "Soul Food" once and you'll get an idea of why so many of us are overweight. But other than that, this book was on the money! Note: My $14.95 was well spent and I've had MANY paperback books of the same quality which did not mess up. Sometimes it's the way folks treat their books that lend to the problem of the condition of the book. Hint, hint.
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