Flatlining: Race, Work, & Health Care in the New Economy

Joe Madison invited sociology Prof. Adia Wingfield, from Washington University in St. Louis, to discuss her book "Flatlining," an honest and in-depth examination of what it means to be black and working in health care today.

As public hospitals and care centers tout the value of racial diversity, the actual labor required to serve communities of color is passed onto Black workers, often without additional resources, support or compensation.

What happens to black health care professionals in the new economy, where work is insecure and organizational resources are scarce? 

What happens when a company says it values diversity but doesn’t do the work needed to live up to that value?

New book, ‘Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in The New Economy,’ studies ‘racial outsourcing’