Working While Black

The Black Person's Guide to Success in the White Workplace

Michelle T. Johnson

• Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
• Year: 2011
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9781569768341
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Careers

When you're black, it's all too easy to feel alone in the workplace. You wonder if you should have said or done something different, or what your coworkers and boss are really thinking.

            This book, now in its second edition, will help you evaluate your options--for everything from getting hired to getting fired, from adjusting your attitude to pursuing legal remedies--while providing real-life solutions to the challenges of fitting your own style, mindset, history, and flavor into the workplace and achieving success.

            Widely praised as the definitive guide for black Americans in the workplace, this new edition of Working While Black has been updated to account for changes in social networking, the Obama effect, the economic downturn, and recent court decisions.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Disclaimer
• Foreword by Julianne Malveaux
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 The 15 Percent Difference
• 2 Where to Be a Black Employee in White America
• 3 Ain’t Too Proud to Beg: How Blacks Get Through the Door in the First Place
• 4 Talking Good and Well
• 5 Hair, Flair, and What You Wear
• 6 What the $%^& Are You Tweeting?
• 7 Friends, Foes, and Fakers
• 8 Fitting In While Standing Out, Settling In Without Selling Out
• 9 When Attitude Is the Issue
• 10 Law and Order, or What to Do If You Decide to Sue
• 11 Bridge over Troubled Waters
• 12 Feeling Down but Not Out
• Conclusion
• Resources
• Index