Using Racial Humor at Work: Promoting Positive Discussions on Race

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Creator	Foxworth, Teela
Abstract	Employees from two different organizations, a public university and a hospital in Oregon, were asked to take part in an interview to assess their perceptions of how race is discussed in their workplace, if racial humor is used in their workplace, if this humor offers an opportunity to discuss race further, and as a result of this discussion, if participants had altered their previous held beliefs about a particular race. Results proved that for the participants in this study, racial humor was used in the workplace and it did offer an opportunity to discuss racial issues further which for the majority of participants, resulted in altering their previous held beliefs about a certain race.
License	All rights reserved
Resource Type	Masters Thesis
Date Available	2008-06-26T19:49:55+00:00
Date Issued	2008-05-23
Degree Level	Master's
Degree Name	Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (M.A.I.S.)
Degree Field	Speech Communication Business Administration
Degree Grantor	Oregon State University
Commencement Year	2009
Advisor	Walls, Celeste
Committee Member	Campbell, Courtney Goodnow, Trischa McAlexander, Jim
Non-Academic Affiliation	Oregon State University. Graduate School
Subject	Race relations Ethnic wit and humor -- Social aspects -- Oregon Humor in the workplace -- Social aspects -- Oregon
Rights Statement	In Copyright
Publisher	Oregon State University
Peer Reviewed	No
Language	English [eng]
Replaces	http://hdl.handle.net/1957/8901

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