Micro-Context: Professional Identity and the Personal Space

Anne Crafford ()
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Anne Crafford: University of Pretoria

Chapter Chapter 6 in Whiteness and Stigma in the Workplace, 2022, pp 207-249 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The aim of this chapter is to explore at the micro-level of analysis the influence of stigma and Whiteness in the identity work of professionals of colour in their personal space. Whiteness and stigma are not confined to the professional domain. They are experienced in the personal domain in ways that shape their lives from an early age and continue to do so throughout their working life as professionals. This chapter explores findings related to the value of education placed by the parents of aspirant professionals, to their embodied history in relation to Whiteness and stigma, to dealing with racial politics across borders, to managing the tensions of identities located in vastly different cosmologies and to the challenges of family responsibilities and “Black tax”.

Keywords: Professional identity; Micro-context; Personal space; Embodied history; Identity work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-09811-6_6

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