Descriptions, Reviews, etc.
Description:
Racial Battle Fatigue is described as the physical and psychological toll taken due to constant and unceasing discrimination, microagressions, and stereotype threat. This edited volume looks at RBF from the perspectives of graduate students, middle level academics, and chief d...
Review Quotes:
"Post-Racial...Bah humbug! ... Exponentially! There are many scholarly attributes to Racial Battle Fatiguein Higher Education. "Illuminating, grounded and instructive" are a few congratulatory words that can be offered about this volume on the myth of post-racial America.
I like Racial Battle Fatigue because it is practical and now. Practical in that knowledge and understanding about race and its intersecting companions gender and class that are on the loose in our global neoliberal society because of nuanced "dyconsciousness" and "blindspots". Now because it addresses how and where the evils of racism (sexism and classism) currently exist in the academy, thereby continuing a legacy of personal and institutional hurt fortoward people of color and people who are othered." --Carl A. Grant, Hoefs-Bascom Professor, University Wisconsin-Madison
"Racial Battle Fatigue in Higher Education is a timely book amidst an onslaught of color-blind racism and the over-representation of people of color in the prison-industrial complex. This book demonstrates the more personal and individual struggle of how racism operates in the micro-interactions of everyday life. A timely book indeed." --Abraham P. DeLeon, associate professor, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, University of Texas at San Antonio
"The editors of this volume have rightfully taken Smith's concept of racial battle fatigue to the "hollowed halls" of higher education. As time moves forward, it will continue stand as testament to the need for an explicit, concrete conversation on the layered, complex manifestations of racsim/White supremacy in people and systems. Thanks to them and their contributors for entering the difficult, but necessary work!" --David Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago
"The myth that race no longer matters in our society or affects one's daily lived experiences is carefully and brilliantly tackled in Racial Battle Fatigue in Higher Education: Exposing the Myth of Post-Racial America. Through touching personal narratives, theory-building essays, and expositions of empirical research, this hefty volume assembles an eclectic gathering of voices - from graduate students and faculty, to diversity officers - to examine the effects of systemic racism in Higher Education." --Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, assistant professor, Teachers College, Columbia University
