NDLI: Racialized Tokens: Latina Teachers Negotiating, Surviving and Thriving in a White Woman’s Profession

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Flores, Glenda Marisol
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Previous scholarship on tokenism in professional occupations analyzes the ways white men exclude white women in male-dominated jobs. This study provides a glimpse of one organization, elementary schools, where white women exclude Latina women in a feminized occupation. Drawing on multiple methodologies, this paper analyzes Latina teachers’ workplace experiences in Santa Ana, a Southern California Mexican immigrant city. The article compares the experiences of Latina teachers working at one school where over 70% of teachers are of Latina origin and three schools where 20% of teachers are Latinas. The author coins the term ‘racialized tokens’ to illustrate how the inextricable link of race, gender and class combine to shape the workplace experiences of Latina teachers who work as numerical minorities among a majority of white colleagues. Since Latina teachers are ‘racialized tokens’ in these spaces, the author argues that in the presumably post-racial era of diversity and multiculturalism in the U.S., Latina teachers do not long for racial integration with white women in their workplaces, rather, they choose to self-segregate because of the comfort and safety self-segregation provides.
Starting Page	313
Ending Page	335
Page Count	23
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01620436
Journal	Qualitative Sociology
Volume Number	34
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15737837
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2011-04-01
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Latina teachers Racialized tokens Elementary schools, Workplace ethnography Intersectionality Interdisciplinary Studies Sociology Social Sciences Personality and Social Psychology Cross Cultural Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science

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