Race Reflections AT WORK
Race Reflections AT WORK
Race Reflections
Idealisation of Black people at work
17 minutes Posted Nov 17, 2025 at 1:00 am.
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In today's episode Guilaine reflects on how, seemingly paradoxically, when Black people (and other marginalised groups) are idealised in the workplace it can put them at risk, and result in their denigration and/or devaluation. She begins by looking an an example, a Black doctor mentioned in Black Skin, White Masks by Franz Fanon: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/313127/black-skin-white-masks-by-fanon-frantz/9780241396667 She expands on this concept to detail the ways that this doctor might be...