Engaging Antiracism: Strategies for Collective Resistance among Black, Indigenous and other Faculty and Staff of Color
Description
This Webinar will examine the phenomenon of racism within Academia and will consider strategies for resistance, coping and healing. The experience of Black, Indigenous and other People of Color will be highlighted, through a review of the empirical research plus drawing on material from the SPOKENproject. The benefits of critical consciousness raising, building anti-racism alliances, and reforming protocols associated with promotion and tenure will be discussed. Finally, participants will engage in a process designed to establish ongoing working groups with the aim of documenting experiences and producing scholarship outlining anti-racist strategies and initiatives for Academia.
Learning Objectives
Identify at least three ways in which racism operates and manifests in the Academy
Outline the effects of racism on BIPOC faculty as identified in the empirical literature
Describe at least one strategy that participants will propose in their respective institutions for confronting racism and supporting BIPOC faculty
Presenter Bio
Dr. Alex Pieterse, PhD
Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Culture at Boston College
Dr. Alex L. Pieterse is an Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Culture at Boston College. He received his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University. Dr. Pieterse’s scholarship focuses on psychosocial aspects of race and racism, racial trauma, and anti-racism training and advocacy. Dr. Pieterse is a Licensed Psychologist and maintains a psychotherapy practice working with individuals and couples.