Tag Archive: Race

The Color Blind Myth

Carmen Van Kerckhove over at New Demogrphic posted a great post on her Race in the Workplace Blog a while back. In her post, she explains that fear of being branded a racist causes people to say that they do not see the most obvious of physical features. She says:
Noticing a person’s race [...]

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Token or Cultural Translator? Why it is Important to Have a Person of Color in the Room

The term ‘token” has been used for many years to describe a person hired to fill a racial quota. It is time to put that idea to rest and with it we should also retire the term token. Perhaps in the past, the idea of diversity was confused with quotas. That confusion led to a [...]

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