Battlegrounds: highly skilled Black African professionals on racial microaggressions at work

My recent study published in the British Journal of Social Work has found workplaces can be “battlegrounds for racism”. Racial microaggressions in the workplace generally take covert or subtle forms, and may be conceptualised as “everyday” or “passive” racism that serve to invalidate or inferiorise the expertise of Black people while positioning white expertise as the standard of “best practice”. In this article, I offer a brief synopsis of my research which reported on the experiences of racial microagressions for highly skilled Black African professionals at work and the ways in which these are expressed.