![]() ![]() These values, established over time as history and fact, have been used to create the narrative of white supremacy that underpins professionalism today, playing out in the hiring, firing, and day-to-day management of workplaces around the world. While people often don’t view this theorization of white supremacy as violent, it can lead to systemic discrimination and physical violence.Īccording to Okun and Jones, white supremacy culture at an organizational level is apparent in: the belief that traditional standards and values are objective and unbiased the emphasis on a sense of urgency and quantity over quality, which can be summarized by the phrase “the ends justify the means” perfectionism that leaves little room for mistakes and binary thinking. ![]() In their definition, the term describes a series of characteristics that institutionalize whiteness and Westernness as both normal and superior to other ethnic, racial, and regional identities and customs. Okun and Jones, however, introduce a different approach to thinking about white supremacy. We are taught to identify white supremacy with violent segregationist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and their modern-day equivalents. In the workplace, white supremacy culture explicitly and implicitly privileges whiteness and discriminates against non-Western and non-white professionalism standards related to dress code, speech, work style, and timeliness. The standards of professionalism, according to American grassroots organizer-scholars Tema Okun and Keith Jones, are heavily defined by white supremacy culture-or the systemic, institutionalized centering of whiteness. ![]()
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