Books written by Adia Harvey Wingfield

  • Changing Times for Black Professionals
    Changing Times for Black Professionals

    This book is a study of the challenges, issues, and obstacles facing black professional workers in the United States.

  • No More Invisible Man: Race and Gender in Men's Work
    No More Invisible Man: Race and Gender in Men's Work

    The “invisible men” of sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield’s urgent and timely No More Invisible Man are African American professionals who fall between extremely high status, high-profile black men and the urban underclass.

  • Race, Identity and Work
    Race, Identity and Work

    Service and the Limits of Creative Work Among Cocktail Bartenders. City, Culture, and Society, ... At Your Service: The Meanings and Practices of Contemporary Bartenders. ... Contemporary identities of creativity and creative work.

  • Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy
    Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy

    Operating at the intersection of work, race, gender, and class, Wingfield makes plain the challenges that black employees must overcome and reveals the complicated issues of inequality in today’s workplaces and communities. “Flatlining ...

  • Race, Identity and Work
    Race, Identity and Work

    Lessons from the black working class: Foreshadowing America's economic health. New York, NY: Praeger. McBrier, D., & Wilson, G. (2004). Going down: Race and downward mobility in the 1990's. Work and Occupations, 24, 201À236.

  • Doing Business with Beauty: Black Women, Hair Salons, and the Racial Enclave Economy
    Doing Business with Beauty: Black Women, Hair Salons, and the Racial Enclave Economy

    they have more access to white customers than do black women entrepreneurs . Future work should consider variations in racial enclave economies across racial lines . Comparisons to Ethnic Economies In several ways , the consequences and ...

  • Doing Business with Beauty: Black Women, Hair Salons, and the Racial Enclave Economy
    Doing Business with Beauty: Black Women, Hair Salons, and the Racial Enclave Economy

    Using in-depth interviews with hair salon owners, Doing Business with Beauty explores several facets of the business of owning a hair salon, including the process of becoming an owner, the dynamics of the owner-employee relationship, and ...

  • No More Invisible Man: Race and Gender in Men's Work
    No More Invisible Man: Race and Gender in Men's Work

    The “invisible men” of sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield’s urgent and timely No More Invisible Man are African American professionals who fall between extremely high status, high-profile black men and the urban underclass.

  • Yes We Can?: White Racial Framing and the Obama Presidency
    Yes We Can?: White Racial Framing and the Obama Presidency

    In this second edition the authors extend that analysis to Obama's service in the presidency and to his second campaign to hold that presidency.

  • Race, Identity and Work
    Race, Identity and Work

    This volume examines the connections between race and work, focusing how racial minorities deal with identity in the workplace; how workers of color encounter exclusion, marginalization and sidelining; and strategies minority workers use to ...