Working Together: Crossing Color Lines At Work By Cynthia Estlund

In Working Together: Crossing Color Lines at Work, Cynthia Estlund discusses that U.S. universities and Fortune-500 companies endorse diversity because it advocates for cross-racial understanding and eliminates racial prejudicial views. She stresses the importance of integration as being a societal goal, and even claims that there has already been “avenues of progress” in the modern-day workplace. Although humans typically isolate themselves from different ethnicities during their leisure time, workers must friendly interact and cooperate with others in a demographically diversified setting. The author claims American social criticism is created by declining levels of civic engagement, such as not interacting with our neighbors, as well as

Workers tolerate their wide range of emotions, such as disgust and resentment because they are receiving paychecks. Since the workplace produces a sense of belonging, cooperation, and sociability for adults outside of their family, Estlund believes the workplace accounts for the makeup of a modern democratic society. While neighborhoods and churches tend to undiversified, the workplace usually requires humans to interact with others of different cultural, religious, and ethnic backgrounds. Studies have shown that integration has been embraced more fluidly at workplaces, rather than schools and neighborhoods because people of various ethnicities are developing deeper relationships with one another, while cities and schools remain racially segregated. Although workplaces are not one hundred percent integrated, these settings still yield more interracial friendship than any other societal area. While white people can lawfully avoid living in black neighborhoods, workplace desegregation has become more mainstream because it is easier to police and