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"Why Can't I Just Chill?": The Visceral Nature of Racial Battle Fatigue
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Quaye, Stephen John; Karikari, Shamika N.; Carter, Kiaya Demere; Okello, Wilson Kwamogi; Allen, Courtney – Journal of College Student Development, 2020
Racism is an ordinary, everyday system of oppression with which People of Color contend. Black people navigate a particular form of racism that is rooted in anti-Blackness, which describes a hatred white people, non-Black People of Color, and even some Black people exhibit toward Black people. Black people working in student affairs are not immune…
Descriptors: Racial Discrimination, Racial Bias, Fatigue (Biology), African Americans
"We Wear the Mask": Self-Definition as an Approach to Healing from Racial Battle Fatigue
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Okello, Wilson Kwamogi; Quaye, Stephen John; Allen, Courtney; Carter, Kiaya Demere; Karikari, Shamika N. – Journal of College Student Development, 2020
Bell's (1992) thesis of racial realism, in concert with the work of Wilderson (2007), Hartman (1997), and Sharpe (2016), positions the afterlife of slavery as an irreconciled event that is ongoing and permanent. If the assumption is that racism exists and, subsequently, racial battle fatigue is and will be an enduring embodied experience that…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, African American Students, Coping, Blacks