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The Emergence Of Racialized Labor And Racial Battle Fatigue In The African American Student Network (Afam), Tabitha Grier-Reed, Anne Williams-Wengerd, Alyssa Maples, Demitri Mcgee

Psychology Faculty Scholarship

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 …