Corporate Rikers by Sajuan Celestin book cover

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Corporate
Rikers

How Black Women Get Trapped at Work—and the RECEIPTS System for Power, Proof, and Progress

Some workplaces are not jobs. They are holding cells with better lighting. Corporate Rikers names the patterns too many Black women know by feel but struggle to prove on paper—and offers a strategy for the next move.

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THE RECEIPTS SYSTEM

Recognize the setup. Document the pattern. Protect the next move.

01

Power

See the workplace dynamics clearly before they cost you peace, pay, or credibility.

02

Proof

Document what happened with the precision the room cannot easily dismiss.

03

Progress

Protect your voice, options, and next move without abandoning yourself.

CONTROLLED AGENT PREVIEW · SEVEN PARTS

The public architecture proves the book is built. The proprietary machinery stays private.

The manuscript moves from diagnosis to documentation to decision. This page names the reader journey without publishing full chapters, the complete RECEIPTS mechanics, or the field-guide tools.

PART I

The Architecture of the Trap

How closed systems, the broken rung, compensation fog, and sponsorless careers make unequal advancement look ordinary.

PART II

The Human Control

How credibility taxes, isolation, opportunity theft, and moving goalposts can reduce a strong employee on paper.

PART III

The Whistleblower Maze

What happens when harassment, complaint systems, retaliation risk, and procedural absorption turn speaking up into another assignment.

PART IV

Responsibility Without Authority

The cost of undefined roles, invisible overtime, missed ownership, caregiving pressure, burnout, and lifestyle punishment.

PART V

The Machine Read the File

How disciplined records and responsible AI analysis can help a human witness preserve distinctions, test the story, and make a history reviewable.

PART VI

RECEIPTS: Power, Proof, and Exit

A practical decision framework for building power before crisis and choosing whether to stay, escalate, negotiate, or exit.

PART VII

The Field Guide

Private companion materials turn the book’s governance principles into career-protection routines, documentation tools, conversation scripts, and legal-literacy prompts.

“Receipts are not revenge. They are memory with a spine.”

INTELLECTUAL-PROPERTY BOUNDARY

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The premise, seven-part reader journey, commercial position, selected original language, cover direction, and the existence of the RECEIPTS framework.

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The proposal, full table of contents, sample chapters, exact RECEIPTS sequence, documentation templates, high-stakes scripts, evidence architecture, and complete manuscript are shared directly with verified agents, editors, and rights partners.

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THE OFFICIAL COVER

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The approved Corporate Rikers artwork from Sajuan’s book project—front, spine, and back.

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SAJUAN CELESTIN