Workplace hate speech and rendering Black and Native lives as if they do not matter: A nightmarish autoethnography
通过自我民族志方法，描述工作场所中仇恨言论如何通过人际互动和群体媒体消费传播，揭示黑人和原住民生命在白人主导组织中被系统性地贬低，影响其生存机会与人身安全。
The #BlackLivesMatter movement has been met with resistance and hostility by many whites who do not see the need for assertions regarding the value and worth of Black lives. Those who seek to disrupt this emerging discourse tend to regard instances of white violence against Black people as individual incidents that do not reflect larger societal patterns. This paper addresses these assertions by drawing on discussions of slurs and other racially abusive language in the workplace. Using autoethnography, I provide rich descriptions of how hateful language circulates in whitespaces through both interpersonal interactions and through group-level consumption of racially problematic mass media creating organizations that are hostile to people of color, even in their absence. Major implications of this study include that the devaluation of Black and Native lives is pervasive within many predominantly white organizations and that this reality negatively effects both the life chances and the personal safety of people of color.