Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience

Foreword: Race in organizations: often cloaked but always present / by Ella L. J. Edmondson Bell and Stella M. Nkomo -- Why a volume on race, work, and leadership? / by Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony J. Mayo, and Serenity Lee -- Section I. History and critical questions in black business leadership: A case study of leading change: the founders of Harvard Business School's African American student union / by Henry Louis Gates, Jr -- Pathways to leadership: black graduates of Harvard Business School / by Anthony J. Mayo and Laura Morgan Roberts -- Commentaries: The struggle is real: black colleges, resources, and respect / by Melissa E. Wooten -- Back to the future: a strategy for studying racism in organizations / by Arthur P. Brief -- Intersectionality and the careers of black women lawyers: results from the Harvard Law School Black Alumni Survey / by David B. Wilkins and Bryon Fong -- Section II. Comparative studies: Workplace engagement and the glass ceiling: the experience of black professionals / by Ella Washington, Ellyn Bass, & Shane McFeely -- Authenticity in the workplace: an African American perspective / by Patricia Faison Hewlin & Anna-Maria Broomes -- Feeling connected: the importance of engagement, authenticity, and relationships in the careers of diverse professionals / by Stacy Blake-Beard, Laura Morgan Roberts, Beverly Edgehill, & Ella Washington -- Section III. Phenomenological studies: the lived experience: Views from the other side: black professionals perceptions of diversity management / by Adia Harvey Wingfield -- Overcoming barriers to developing and retaining diverse talent in healthcare professions / by Laura Morgan Roberts, Stacy Blake-Beard, Stephanie Creary, Beverly Edgehill and Sakshi Ghai -- From c-suite to start-ups: an illusion of inclusion / by Toigo Foundation (Nancy Sims, Sue Toigo, Maura Allen & Toni Cornelius) -- Rough waters of resistance: black instructional coaches impacted by implicit bias / by Michelle Smith Macchia & Kisha Porcher -- A million gray areas: how two friends crossed paths professionally and personally and mutually enhanced their understanding of relationships of race, gender, class and power / by Kathryn Fraser and Karen Samuels -- African American women as change agents in the white academy: pivoting the margin via grounded theory / by Muriel E. Shockley and Elizabeth L. Holloway -- The transformational impact of black women/womanist theologians leading intergroup dialogue in liberation work of the oppressed and the oppressor / by Tawana Davis -- Psychodynamics of black authority - sentience and sellouts: ol' skool civil rights and woke Black Lives Matter / by Diane Forbes Berthoud, Flora Taylor, and Zachary Green -- Section IV. Theorizing black leadership: Is D&I about us?: how inclusion practices undermine black advancement and how to design for real inclusion / by Valerie Purdie-Greenaway & Martin N. Davidson -- The glass cliff: African American CEOs as crisis leaders / by Lynn Perry Wooten & Erika Hayes James -- When black leaders leave: costs and consequences / by Kecia Thomas, Aspen J. Robinson, Laura Provolt, and B. Lindsay Brown -- Blacks leading whites: how mutual and dual (ingroup and outgroup) identification affect inequality / by Lumumba Seegars and Lakshmi Ramarajan -- Managing diversity, managing blackness?: an intersectional critique of diversity management practices / by Courtney L. McCluney & Verónica Caridad Rabelo -- Uncovering the hidden face of affinity fraud: race-based predatory bias, social identity and the need for inclusive leadership / by Audrey Murrell, Ray Jones, & Jennifer Petrie -- Section V. The future: lessons for the next generation of leaders: Ujima: lifting as we climb to develop the next generation of African American leaders / by Lynn Wooten, Shannon Polk, and Whitney Williams -- Conclusion: Intersection of race, work, and leadership: lessons in advancing black leaders / by Laura Morgan Roberts and Anthony J. Mayo.