Anti-Blackness: Difficult Dialogues Series | “We Charge Genocide!” The Mental and Physical Tolls of Racial Battle Fatigue among Black People ♥ ✚

Join the UC Irvine School of Social Sciences Office of Faculty Development and Diversity for

Anti-Blackness: Difficult Dialogues Series

“We Charge Genocide!”
The Mental and Physical Tolls of Racial Battle Fatigue among Black People

featuring

William A. Smith, Professor and Department Chair, Education, Culture and Society, University of Utah

Wednesday, March 31, 2021
12:00-1:30 p.m.

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William A. Smith is professor and chair of the Department of Education, Culture & Society at the University of Utah. He also holds a joint appointment in the Ethnic Studies Program (African American Studies division). He has served as the associate dean for diversity, access, & equity in the College of Education (2007-2014) as well as a special assistant to the president as the NCAA faculty athletics representative (2007-2013) at the University of Utah. Smith is co-editor (with Philip Altbach & Kofi Lomotey) of the book, The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education: The Continuing Challenges for the 21st Century (2002). The 2nd revised edition to The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education was recently published with all new chapters. In 2018, he received the College of Education’s Faculty Service Award for Outstanding Research & Scholarship. In 2020, Smith was awarded the Spencer Foundation’s Mentor Award, and the University of Utah’s Distinguished Graduate & Postdoctoral Scholar Mentor Award. His research primarily focuses on his theoretical contribution of Racial Battle Fatigue, which is the cumulative emotional, psychological, physiological, and behavioral effects that racial micro-level aggressions and macro-level aggressions (microaggressions and macroaggressions) have on racialized Targets of White Supremacy. Smith’s work has appeared in such prestigious journals as The International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Journal of Negro Education, Harvard Educational Review, Educational Administration Quarterly, American Educational Research Journal, Journal of Minority Achievement, Creativity, and Leadership, Spectrum: The Journal of Black Males, and American Behavioral Scientist, to name a few. He received his undergraduate and master’s from Eastern Illinois University (bachelor’s in psychology and master’s in counseling psychology), and his Ph.D. is from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (educational policy studies, sociology/social psychology of higher education).

This series is co-sponsored by the UCSB Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, UCI Office of Inclusive Excellence, UCI School of Social Sciences Office of Faculty Development and Diversity, UCI Samueli School of Engineering, UCI School of Humanities, UCI School of Physical Sciences, and UCI Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences.

Pre-registration is required for this event. A Zoom webinar link will be provided for confirmed registrants. Interpretation and captioning will be provided. This webinar will be recorded for educational purposes. To request reasonable accommodations for a disability, or for further information, please email Fran Hom, fhom@uci.edu.