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Title: The Emergence of Racialized Labor and Racial Battle Fatigue in the African American Student Network (AFAM)
Language: English
Authors: Tabitha Grier-Re, Alyssa Maples, Anne Williams-Wengerd, Demitri McGee
Source: Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity. 2020 6(2):94-135.
Availability: National Conference on Race and Ethnicity. 3200 Marshall Avenue, Suite 290, Norman, OK 73072. e-mail: JCSCORE.research@gmail.com; Web site: https://journals.shareok.org/jcscore
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 42
Publication Date: 2020
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Fatigue (Biology), Racial Relations, Labor, African American Students, Longitudinal Studies, Faculty, Graduate Students, Facilitators (Individuals), African American Teachers, Student Experience, Sense of Community, Campuses, Undergraduate Students, Psychological Patterns, College Environment, Minority Group Students, Meetings, Blacks, Immigrants
ISSN: 2642-2387
Abstract: Although little may be new with respect to the lived experience of racialized labor for People of Color navigating whiteness and white spaces, this study is the first to identify "racialized labor in everyday life." Adapting consensual qualitative research methods to a phenomenological frame, we examined 277 notes summarizing weekly discussions in the African American Student Network (AFAM) over a 13-year time period. Co-facilitated by Black faculty and graduate students, AFAM was a space for Black undergraduates to make meaning of their experiences and find community on campus. We defined "racialized labor" as the ongoing process of navigating hostile environments steeped in a white racial frame and identified six categories: (1) "self-monitoring/self-policing"; (2) "flexing/making adjustments"; (3) "questioning"; (4) "affirming"; (5) "avoiding"; and, (6) "being the change" or standing up for justice. Racial battle fatigue was one outcome of all the racialized labor--primarily anger, stress, frustration, hypervigilance, pressure, and exhaustion along with numbness, shock, sadness and disappointment. Both racialized labor and racial battle fatigue also occurred at the intersections of students' lives in structural, political, and representational ways. Future studies that capture the ways in which "racialized labor in everyday life" is enacted by People of Color are needed. The ability to name racialized labor provides an important analytical tool for distinguishing the ongoing process of navigating racism from negative consequences such as racial battle fatigue. This line of research also has implications for creating spaces that facilitate racialized labor and wellbeing for Black people and People of Color.
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Entry Date: 2025
Accession Number: EJ1463993
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