It's hard to be in the minority. If you're the only person from your ethnic or cultural background in your organization or team, you probably know what it's like to be misunderstood or marginalized. You might find yourself inadvertently overlooked or actively silenced. Even when a work environment is not blatantly racist or hostile, people of color often struggle to thrive-and may end up leaving the organization. Being a minority is not just about numbers. It's about understanding pain, power, and the impact of the past. Organizational consultant Adrian Pei describes key challenges ethnic minorities face in majority-culture organizations. He unpacks how historical forces shape contemporary realities, and what both minority and majority cultures need to know in order to work together fruitfully. If you're a cultural minority working in a majority culture organization, or if you're a majority culture supervisor of people from other backgrounds, learn the dynamics at work. And be encouraged that you can help make things better so that all can flourish.

PrefaceIntroduction: What Is a Minority?Part 1: Understanding the Minority Experience1. Self-Doubt: Understanding Pain2. Pain, Power, and the Past: Three Distinctives of the Minority Experience3. Domestication: Understanding Power4. Weariness: Understanding the PastPart 2: Redeeming the Minority Experience5. Challenges in Organizational Development: How to Diversify Your Organization6. Seeing Pain with Eyes of Compassion7. Stewarding Power with Hands of Advocacy8. Reframing the Past with a Heart of Wisdom9. The Challenge and the OpportunityAcknowledgmentsStudy GuideNotesAuthor IndexSubject IndexScripture Index