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Free Download Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BT17ZBZP | 2023 | 10 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 289 MB
Author: Adia Harvey Wingfield
Narrator: Lynnette R. Freeman
A leading sociologist reveals why racial inequality persists in the workplace despite today’s multi-billion-dollar diversity industry-and provides actional solutions for creating a truly equitable, multiracial future. Labor and race have shared a complex, interconnected history in America. For decades, key aspects of work-from getting a job to workplace norms to advancement and mobility-ignored and failed Black people. While explicit discrimination no longer occurs, and organizations make internal and public pledges to honor and achieve "diversity," inequities persist through what Adia Harvey Wingfield calls the "gray areas:" the relationships, networks, and cultural dynamics integral to companies that are now more important than ever. The reality is that Black employees are less likely to be hired, stall out at middle levels, and rarely progress to senior leadership positions. Wingfield has spent a decade examining inequality in the workplace, interviewing over two hundred Black subjects across professions about their work lives.

Free Download Jasmine Rault, "Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In"
English | ISBN: 0754669610 | 2011 | 196 pages | PDF | 24 MB
The first book-length feminist analysis of Eileen Gray’s work, Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In argues that Gray’s unusual architecture and design – as well as its history of abuse and neglect – emerged from her involvement with cultures of sapphic modernism. Bringing together a range of theoretical and historical sources, from architecture and design, communication and media, to gender and sexuality studies, Jasmine Rault shows that Gray shared with many of her female contemporaries a commitment to designing spaces for sexually dissident modernity. This volume examines Gray’s early lacquer work and Romaine Brooks’ earliest nude paintings; Gray’s first built house, E.1027, in relation to Radclyffe Hall and her novel The Well of Loneliness; and Gray’s private house, Tempe à Pailla, with Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood. While both female sexual dissidence and modernist architecture were reduced to rigid identities through mass media, women such as Gray, Brooks, Hall and Barnes resisted the clarity of such identities with opaque, non-communicative aesthetics. Rault demonstrates that by defying the modern imperative to publicity, clarity and identity, Gray helped design a sapphic modernity that cultivated the dynamism of uncertain bodies and unfixed pleasures, which depended on staying in rather than coming out.

Free Download John Roth, "Gray Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and its Aftermath (War and Genocide, 8)"
English | 2005 | pages: 440 | ISBN: 184545071X, 1845453026 | PDF | 1,6 mb
Few essays about the Holocaust are better known or more important than Primo Levi’s reflections on what he called "the gray zone," a reality in which moral ambiguity and compromise were pronounced. In this volume accomplished Holocaust scholars, among them Raul Hilberg, Gerhard L. Weinberg, Christopher Browning, Peter Hayes, and Lynn Rapaport, explore the terrain that Levi identified. Together they bring a necessary interdisciplinary focus to bear on timely and often controversial topics in cutting-edge Holocaust studies that range from historical analysis to popular culture. While each essay utilizes a particular methodology and argues for its own thesis, the volume as a whole advances the claim that the more we learn about the Holocaust, the more complex that event turns out to be. Only if ambiguities and compromises in the Holocaust and its aftermath are identified, explored, and at times allowed to remain-lest resolution deceive us-will our awareness of the Holocaust and its implications be as full as possible.