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Leveraging their deviance in different ways empowers individuals to bring their authentic selves to the job.",[],{"type":367,"items":447},[448,458,468],{"blocks":449},[450],{"type":333,"content":451},[452,455],{"type":265,"value":453,"marks":454},"Challenge negative stereotypes. ",[355],{"type":265,"value":456,"marks":457},"An African American news editor interviewed by Roberts in her research on deviant identities proactively dips into his own racial insights and awareness of stereotypes to broaden his readers’ understanding of African Americans living in public housing. His stories offer a more nuanced image of people who “needed a hand-up as opposed to a hand-out,” challenging negative stereotypes around “baby on the hip mothers” and dissolute lifestyles — a more rounded perspective that he could also share with colleagues writing about similar topics. 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",[355],{"type":265,"value":476,"marks":477},"Some of the participants in Roberts’ studies reported times they took the opportunity to ",[],{"type":333,"content":479},[480,483],{"type":265,"value":481,"marks":482},"confirm",[338],{"type":265,"value":484,"marks":485}," some of the more positive stereotypes around their racial identities. For African Americans, riffing with the “cool” stereotype afforded them greater cachet in the workplace; for Asian Americans, playing up the notion that they were somehow inherently “hard-working” and “intelligent” also worked to their favor at times. Many reported that this kind of confirming behavior did not make them feel inauthentic. 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