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Tokenism is the practice of making only a perfunctory or symbolic effort to be inclusive to members of minority groups, especially by recruiting people from underrepresented groups in order to give the appearance of racial or gender equality within a workplace or educational context.[1][2][3] The effort of including a token individual in work or school is usually intended to create the impression of social inclusiveness and diversity (racial, religious, sexual, etc.).[4] The social concept and the employment practice of tokenism became understood in the popular culture of the United States in the late 1950s.[5] In the face of racial segregation, tokenism emerged as a solution that though earnest in effort, only acknowledged an issue without actually solving it.[6] In the book Why We Can't Wait (1964), civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. discussed the subject of tokenism, and how it constitutes a minimal acceptance of black people to the mainstream of U.S. society.[7] When aske

Tokenism - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Making a perfunctory or symbolic effort towards including minority groups In sociology , tokenism is the social practice of making a perfunctory and symbolic effort towards the equitable inclusion of members of a minority group , especially by recruiting people from under-represented social-minority groups in order for the organization to give the public appearance of racial and gender equality , usually within a workplace, government, or a school. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The sociological purpose of tokenism is to give the ap

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