Are some emotions marked "whites only"? Racialized feeling rules in professional workplaces

Social Problems

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 251-268

  Wingfeld, Adia Harvey ^a  

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Author keywords

Black professionals; Emotion work; Feeling rules; Race; Tokenism

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951028821     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: 15338533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/sp.2010.57.2.251     Document Type: Article

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