Making the Effort: The Contours of Racial Discrimination in Detroit’s Labor Markets, 1920–1940

1995 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas N. Maloney ◽  
Warren C. Whatley
Keyword(s):  
Labor Markets ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Ford Motor Company ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Extra Effort ◽  
Married Men ◽  
Family Wage

In 1940 the Ford Motor Company employed half of the black men in Detroit but only 14 percent of the whites. We find that black Detroiters were concentrated at Ford because they were excluded from working elsewhere. Those most affected were young married black men. A Ford job was virtually the only opportunity they had to earn a family wage; but to keep it, they had to put out the extra effort that Ford required. White married men in Detroit had better employment opportunities elsewhere, so they tended to avoid Ford or leave very quickly.

African American Women, Racism and Triple Oppression

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-117
Author(s):  
Rajendra Prasad Chapagain
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Black Males ◽  
White Women ◽  
Black American ◽  
American Women ◽  
Black American Women ◽  
Sexual Repression

African American women have been made multiple victims: racial discrimination by the white community and sexual repression by black males of their own community. They have been subjected to both kind of discrimination - racism and sexism. It is common experience of black American women. Black American women do have their own peculiar world and experiences unlike any white or black men and white women. They have to fight not only against white patriarchy and white women's racism but also against sexism of black men within their own race. To be black and female is to suffer from the triple oppression- sexism, racism and classicism.

Racial Discrimination in Labor Markets with Posted Wage Offers

2005 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. 1327-1340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Lang ◽  
Michael Manove ◽  
William T Dickens
Keyword(s):  
Labor Markets ◽  
Racial Discrimination

scholarly journals Racial Discrimination in Health Care Is Associated with Worse Glycemic Control among Black Men but Not Black Women with Type 2 Diabetes

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shervin Assari ◽  
Daniel B. Lee ◽  
Emily Joy Nicklett ◽  
Maryam Moghani Lankarani ◽  
John D. Piette ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Glycemic Control ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Black Men

scholarly journals The Racialized and Gendered Workplace: Applying an Intersectional Lens to a Field Experiment on Hiring Discrimination in Five European Labor Markets

2020 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-250
Author(s):  
Valentina Di Stasio ◽  
Edvard N. Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
White Women ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Hiring Discrimination ◽  
Stereotype Content ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
European Labor Markets

We draw on a field experiment conducted in five European countries to analyze hiring discrimination on the basis of gender and race. We adopt an intersectional perspective and relate existing theories on gender and racial discrimination to recent work on the gendered stereotype content of different races. We find that employers prefer hiring white women over men for female-typed jobs. By contrast, women of color do not have any advantage over men of the same race. Moreover, black and Middle Eastern men encounter the strongest racial discrimination in male-typed jobs, where it is possible that their stereotyped masculinity, made salient by the occupational context, is perceived as threatening. Overall, we argue that the employment chances of applicants of different gender and racial backgrounds are highly dependent on their perceived congruence (or lack thereof) with the feminine or masculine traits of the job they apply to.

Abstract P115: Race, Sex, and Geographical Variation in Perceived Racial Discrimination: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in YoungAdults (CARDIA) Study

Circulation ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 137 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ganga S Bey ◽  
Sharina D Person ◽  
Catarina I Kiefe
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Black Men ◽  
White Women ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
The Other ◽  
Geographical Differences ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Perceived Racial Discrimination

Introduction: Variation in exposure to discrimination has been proposed as a contributor to disparities in cardiovascular disease (CVD) among black and white women and men in the U.S. Yet, evidence is conflicting, perhaps due to insufficiently studied race-sex and geographical differences in the pathogenicity of discrimination. We hypothesized that the prevalence of perceived racial discrimination in a variety of settings differs by race, sex, and geographic location. Methods: We used data from CARDIA, a population-based cohort of black and white adults recruited in Birmingham, AL; Chicago, IL; Minneapolis, MN, and Oakland, CA in 1985-6 (year 0). Racial discrimination perceived in several scenarios was assessed using the Lifetime Discrimination Scale at years 7, 15, and 20 (2005-6). We assessed the prevalence at each of these exams and in each scenario, stratified by race-sex group. Results: Prevalence of reported discrimination did not differ markedly over time; we report on year 7 only (n=4,025, figure), with qualitatively similar findings at the other years. Reported discrimination in ≥2 scenarios ranged from 52% in Birmingham to 70% in Minneapolis among black women; among black men, from 65% in Birmingham and 75% in Minneapolis and Oakland. This prevalence was <20% among white women and men in every city. Within all groups, discrimination on the street or in a public setting was most prevalent (p<0.001) and least prevalent in receiving medical care (p<0.001). The proportion of black men reporting discrimination by the police or courts was substantially greater than the other three race-sex groups in each of the four cities (all p<0.001). Conclusions: We found variation in the prevalence of reported racial discrimination across race, sex, and geography. Differences in the experience of discrimination may lead to differences in the health-damaging effects of exposure and partially explain inconsistencies in the evidence of discrimination as a cause of disparities in cardiovascular disease between black and white women and men.

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