Adia Harvey Wingfield
Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor in Arts & Sciences and Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis
Chapter Member: Confluence SSN
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About Adia
Wingfield's research focuses on the ways everyday patterns in professional workplaces can maintain racial and gender inequalities. In particular; she is an expert on the workplace challenges facing black men in jobs where they are in the minority. Her work has implications for labor policies; racial and gender inequality; and diversity initiatives.
Contributions
Constructive Steps to Further Workplace Diversity
Key Findings Brief,
No Jargon Podcast
In the News
Opinion: "Abandoning Public Education Will be Considered Unthinkable 50 Years from Now," Adia Harvey Wingfield, Vox, April 3, 2019.
Research discussed by , in "The Emotional, Uncomfortable Classroom," Inside Higher Ed, May 11, 2018.
Research discussed by , in "For Black Women, Femininity and Feminism are not Mutually Exclusive," Quartzy, January 6, 2018.
Opinion: "Racism is Stopping Black Men from Solving Our Nursing Shortage," Adia Harvey Wingfield, Slate, November 27, 2017.
Guest on All Things Considered, October 16, 2016.
Opinion: "The Professional Burdens of Being a ‘Model Minority’," Adia Harvey Wingfield, The Atlantic, June 6, 2016.
Opinion: "The Unique Tensions of Couples Who Marry across Classes," Adia Harvey Wingfield, The Atlantic, April 5, 2016.
Opinion: "Dear CEOs, Those Campus Racism Protests May be Coming to Your Office," Adia Harvey Wingfield, Fortune, March 6, 2016.
Opinion: "Segregation Today, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever," Adia Harvey Wingfield, The Atlantic, February 4, 2016.
Opinion: "How ‘Service with a Smile’ Takes a Toll on Women," Adia Harvey Wingfield, The Atlantic, January 26, 2016.
Opinion: "The Plight of the Black Academic," Adia Harvey Wingfield, The Atlantic, December 15, 2015.
Opinion: "Being Black - but Not Too Black - in the Workplace," Adia Harvey Wingfield, The Atlantic, October 14, 2015.
Opinion: "Canaries in the Coal Mine? Saida Grundy, Zandria Robinson, and Why Calls for their Firing are a Problem for Everyone," Adia Harvey Wingfield, Organizations, Occupations and Work, July 8, 2015.
Opinion: "Unintentional Sexism in Tech," Adia Harvey Wingfield, Organizations, Occupations and Work, May 11, 2015.
Opinion: "Federal Jobs Report, MSNBC Story on Black Underemployment Ignore Data on Discrimination," Adia Harvey Wingfield, Organizations, Occupations and Work, February 23, 2015.
Opinion: "Rand Paul Exposes the Dangers of Colorblind Thinking," Adia Harvey Wingfield, Racism Review, May 22, 2010.
Opinion: "Muting Rihanna and Commercializing Domestic Abuse," Adia Harvey Wingfield, Racism Review, January 6, 2010.
Opinion: "Race and the Republican Party: The Elephant in the Room," Adia Harvey Wingfield, Racism Review, May 10, 2009.
Opinion: "I, Too, Sing America: A Different Perspective on Obama," Adia Harvey Wingfield, Racism Review, November 10, 2008.