Whitened Résumés: Race and Self-Presentation in the Labor Market

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 469-502

  Kang, Sonia K ^a   DeCelles, Katherine A ^a   Tilcsik, András ^a   Jun, Sora ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

diversity statements; labor market inequality; racial discrimination; racial minorities; r sum whitening; self presentation; stigma

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979233539     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: 19303815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0001839216639577     Document Type: Article

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