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Keeping you entertained and informed about race and the workplace with Dr Anton Lewis

May 30, 2023

On the whole we tend to view accounting as a dull and boring excise in counting beans. But this is not true and hasn’t been true ever. In this episode a brief review is given of how this ‘boring technology’ was in fact integral to harm inflicted up Black and Brown bodies during slavery and how it...


Mar 31, 2023

We all tell tales and they can be powerful if the right one is told in the right way. All too often a dominant majority white tale is told about the inferiority of Black professionals and other People of Color in the workplace and beyond. In this podcast I suggest that we need better oppositional tales or Counterstories...


Feb 10, 2023

In this first episode of our third season, we explore the concept of Working Identity. But what is this I hear you cry? It is the strategy which stigmatized professionals use to gain some measure of acceptance in dominant majority white space. It is the act of molding social reality around oneself to be an OK...


Nov 30, 2022

In this episode we explore the much-maligned concept of White Fragility. A lot has already been said about it, some true and much false, but have we been given an accurate working definition of it yet? In this Podcast I attempt to do so. But let me be clear. To begin to talk about White Fragility is to provoke in many a...


Oct 15, 2022

In this podcast we discuss why wealth is so difficult to attain and keep for Black Americans and others in the Black Diaspora. It is a real-life problem for Black people which means if we cannot change it the Black community will continue to suffer. At its core I suggest that historic racism that continues today is at...