FSOS professor, graduate student to present new research at Scholar Spotlight

Dr. Tabitha Grier-Reed, professor, and Miguel Quiñones, graduate student, in the Department of Family Social Science, will present recent published research at the CEHD Scholar Spotlight, a new forum for researchers to present their recent groundbreaking publications to the College of Education and Human Development community.

For academic year 2020-21, “Scholar Spotlight: Centering Race”, is focusing on faculty members who have a recent publication on diversity, inclusion, and racial issues and justice. Dr. Grier-Reed and Quiñones will present, “Introducing Racialized Labor,” Tuesday, February 2, at 5 p.m. via zoom.

“The Emergence of Racialized Labor and Racial Battle Fatigue in the African American Student Network (AFAM)“ was written by Dr. Grier Reed in collaboration with FSOS graduate students Alyssa Maples, Ann Williams-Wengerd, and alumni Dimitri McGee, M.S. and published in the Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Equity.

According to the article,  “The term racialized labor is new and emerging. Although other types of labor, such as emotional labor have received considerable attention in the literature (Jeung et al, 2018; Williams et al., 2019) the phenomenon of racialized labor has remained largely unnamed. Yet, the work of negotiating racism and racial marginalization is part of everyday life for many People of Color (Sue et al., 2007). To address this dearth of literature, the current study focused on the phenomenon of racialized labor in the lives of college students as captured through weekly discussions in the African American Student Network (AFAM). In addition, the current research focused on better understanding experiences of racial battle fatigue (RBF).

Racialized labor can be thought of as the effort expended to navigate hostile environments steeped in a white racial frame (WRF; Feagin, 2013). Feagin (2013) describes the WRF as a grand social narrative comprising racialized language, images, stereotypes, and emotions that tend to discriminate against People of Color while equating whiteness with virtue.”

This presentation spotlights the first study of racialized labor in everyday life. Register for the Introducing Racialized Labor event through Zoom.