Racism in professional settings: forms of address as clues to power relations

Article Abstract:

Since the Reagan administration, commitments to affirmative action programs have waned precipitously, inner cities have been decimated, high-paying manufacturing jobs have been replaced by high-tech service sector jobs, and a burgeoning Black middle class has developed; yet racial inequality persists. Although great strides have been made, people of color still confront racism in various arenas. One of the most difficult areas in which to identify subtle but pernicious forms of racism is professional office settings. This article explores how power relations are signified by subtle cultural rules. Specifically, it demonstrates how the cultural rules used by co-workers to address each other emerge as a way of articulating interethnic power relations in office settings. The research concludes that even the best efforts is to diversify the workforce of an organization often perpetuate racial inequality because members of various ethnic groups are still underrepresented in the top management positions. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Social aspects, Research, Race relations, Racism, Discrimination, Forms of address

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From self-help to professional care: an enhanced application of the 12-step program

Article Abstract:

The author sets out an enhanced application of 12-step self-help program established by Alcoholics Anonymous, for use in professional counseling. The application's employment of applied spirituality and its usefulness for average people are emphasized.

Planning, Counseling, Twelve-step programs, Twelve step programs

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The perils of belonging and cosmopolitan optimism: an affective reading of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict

Article Abstract:

FreudEs Moses and Monotheism is examined to show how histories of belonging are made from responses to trauma that lead to cancel out otherness in the interest of a coherent and stable collective identity.

Psychological aspects, Group identity, Social identity, Israel-Arab conflicts, Arab-Israeli conflicts, Internationalism

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