'On being white: There's nothing I can say': Exploring whiteness and power in organizations

Management Learning

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 429-450

  Macalpine, Marion ^a,b   Marsh, Sheila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Thames Valley University ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discourse; Ethnicity; Hegemony; Identity; Power; Whiteness

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144439906     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507605058138     Document Type: Review

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