Macro-Context: Professional Identity and the Public Space

Anne Crafford ()
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Anne Crafford: University of Pretoria

Chapter Chapter 4 in Whiteness and Stigma in the Workplace, 2022, pp 111-157 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The aim of this chapter is to explore at the macro-level of analysis the influence of stigma and Whiteness in the identity work of professionals of colour within the public space. These areas included education, both schooling and university, as well as legislation, most specifically relating to employment equity and broad-based Black economic empowerment. This chapter explores the dynamics of the schooling and university systems, as well as their impact on aspirant professionals of colour. It considers contrasts in rural versus urban schools, the ways in which historical racial spaces continue to be reproduced and the consequences for identity regulation. Finally, it explains how legislation, aimed at redress for the structural inequalities of apartheid continues to be used by White people to restrict and challenge the professional identity of people of colour.

Keywords: Professional identity; Macro-context; Public space; Identity work; Education systems; Employment equity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-09811-6_4

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