On April 20, 2023, ViMLoC hosted our webinar series event with Silvia Vong, Associate Chief Librarian, Scholarly, Research, and Creative Activities, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) Libraries. We have recorded the 90 minute webinar available below.  

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In 2005, Jane Hyun, a management consultant, wrote a book titled Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: Career Strategies for Asians. Though the text was intended to “introduce” Asians to dominant management practices and workplace culture, the text was problematic in that it essentialized Asians, reiterated deficit narratives, and narratives of the “other.” In an effort to add another perspective to the issue of the lack of representation, the research study was designed with a structuralist approach. Rather than blame or point to a group, the study focused on examining social and organizational barriers through a Bourdieusian and Critical Race Theory lens to identify how dominant structures exclude, reward assimilation, and build into a system, of invisible or taken-for-granted rules.