Call for Anthology Submissions

Anthology Title  

“We, The Excluded People: How Racism in America Defers Dreams and Diminishes Hopes – Momentarily”  

                       

The Journal of Colorism Studies (JOCS) is holding open submissions for essays to be featured in an upcoming anthology titled “We, the Excluded People: How Racism in America Defers Dreams and Diminishes Hopes – Momentarily” edited by Dr. Donnamaria Culbreth.

This anthology is a fundraiser of the Journal of Colorism Studies with all proceeds supporting the Journal of Colorism Studies.

We are interested in well-crafted submissions that focus on how racism in America affects Black Americans. It is through these submissions that we hope to further enlighten society of the detrimental effects of racism on the psychological, emotional, physical, and social well-being and growth of Black Americans in the millennium. Essays should also recommend strategies to address racism in America.

Selected topics are noted below

Submission Guidelines

• Submit a letter of interest identifying the selected essay category from the attached Essay Categories List.
• No work may be more than 3500 words. Please watch your word count. Submissions over the word count will be disqualified for this
• The work must not have appeared in print or online.
• All submissions must be written in English, include a cover letter containing word count and writing
• Each author may submit up to two (2) unique
• Essays must be submitted electronically in Microsoft Word format, Times New Roman 12 point font and double

Author Bios

Submissions should include author biographies not to exceed one paragraph and may include links to personal websites.

 

Submission Deadline

December 31, 2020 by midnight)with a targeted publication date of June 2021.

 

Submissions

Submit documents to: Anthology@jocs.org

 

On behalf of the Journal of Colorism Studies, thank you for your support and submissions.

 

Continued Success!

Dr. Donnamaria Culbreth
Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Colorism Studies

Website: jocsonline.org

Twitter: @ColorismJournal

Essay Categories

 Topics include but are not limited to the following:

 

Black Women

• Negative stereotypes
• Employment
• Leadership
• Hair
• Body image
• Standards of beauty
• Healthcare
• Education
• Respect

 

Black Men

• Disparate treatment
• Incarceration
• Racial profiling
• Negative stereotypes
• Employment
• Education
• Police brutality
• Families
• Opportunities

 

Community

• Gang violence
• Shootings
• Gentrification
• Neighborhoods
• Segregation
• Non-profits and Corporate Social Responsibility
• Conflict
• Drugs (crack vs. opioids)
• Healthy communities
• Protests/marches

 

Education

• Quality education
• The Achievement Gap
• K-12
• Higher education
• Faculty
• Student learning
• Advising
• Racism on campus
• Racist faculty
• The purpose of education
• Low income schools
• College preparation
• Student success

 

Employment

• Equal employment opportunities
• Hiring/terminations
• Reporting racism
• Racism
• Disparate treatment
• Promotions
• Job opportunities
• Black women in the workplace
• Inequities in the workplace
• Careers
• Exclusion in the workplace
• Diversity
• Tolerance as a catalyst
• Colorism

 

Environmental

• Environmental racism
• Air quality
• Neighborhood contamination
• Inner cities
• Flint and the water crisis

 

 Family

• Extended families
• Relationships
• Parenting
• Saving the children
• Children/teens
• Conversations with Black boys/Black girls
• Family structure
• Black girls/boys – unique needs/challenges and traumas

 

Government

• Federal
• State
• Local
• Job training programs
• Opportunities

 

 Healthcare

• Healthcare disparities
• Black women and healthcare
• Pregnancies and death rates
• Black men and healthcare
• COVID-19

 

Historical  (relate to issues in the millennium)

• Post-slavery
• Reparations?
• 400 years
• Racism in America
• Reconstruction
• Civil War
• Jim Crow
• The Civil Rights Era
• Black Power Movement
• The Deacons of Defense
• The Black Panthers
• The Civil Rights Era
• Racism in the millennium
• Lynching/murders
• Emmitt Till in the millennium
• Boycotts

 

Leadership

• What would DuBois and Booker T. Washington Do?
• What would Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcom X Do?
• Community leaders
• The opportunists
• Game changers
• Leading change

 

Legal/Criminal Justice

• Criminal justice system
• Prisons/Incarceration
• Criminal justice reform
• Sentencing of Black boys/men/girls/women
• Jury bias
• Justice delayed is justice denied

 

 Media

• Perpetuating racism
• Unconscious racism
• Stereotypes
• Reporting/news

 

Mentoring

• The lack of inner-city programs
• Recreational vs. Intellectual programs for inner city Black children
• Mentoring Black girls/boys

 

Personal

• Self-esteem
• Self-love
• Self-respect
• Self-identity
• Self-pride
• Culture
• Anger
• Denial
• Depression
• Acceptance
• Trauma/challenges
• Trauma (psychological, physical, emotional and social)
• Burdens of our children
• Deferred dreams
• Hope/diminished hope
• Coping mechanisms
• Colorism
• Healing
• Rising to the top

 

Police and the Community

• Racial profiling
• Police and racism
• Policing black bodies
• Murder of Black men/boys/women/girls
• Protests
• Civil rights
• Incarceration
• Prosecuting police officers
• Conflict and differences
• Police brutality
• Police calls (false reporting of Black Americans for unsubstantiated reasons)
• Colorism
• Detaining Black men
• “You fit the description”

 

 Political

• Democrats
• Republicans
• Voting
• Pandering for the Black vote
• Promises
• Agendas

 

 Racism/Institutional Racism

• Speaking truth to power
• Racial prejudice
• Racial disparities
• Negative stereotypes
• Prejudice
• Biasnesses
• Racial perception gap
• Education
• Healthcare
• Law
• Employment
• Financial industry
• White privilege
• Racial divide
• Conscious and unconscious racism
• Intentional and unintentional racism
• Overt racism
• Covert racism
• Critical race theories
• Strategies
• Voices
• Why we can’t wait
• Enough

 

Social

• Relationships
• Interracial platonic and romantic relationships
• Value of Black lives
• Jim Crow in the Millennium
• Organizations (NAACP, Urban League, etc.)
• Unity
• Solidarity
• Psychic prisons
• Interracial colorism
• Voices and being heard
• Taking a stand
• Strategies

 

Social Media

• Online Platforms
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Instagram

 

Socioeconomic

• Income disparities
• Small businesses
• Opportunities
• Financial
• Credit
• Home ownership
• Mortgages
• Neighborhoods
• Housing
• Black Wall Street in the Millennium

 

 The Black Church

 

 

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Topics include women of color and quality healthcare, preventative care, pain and medication, understanding and questioning diagnoses, asking questions, second opinions, knowledge, research, trusting doctors, on being heard loud and clear, the importance of using your voice, childbirth, mortality rates, surgical procedures, racism, colorism and disparate treatment in the healthcare industry. Additional topics include strategies to empower women of color to take control of their health and make informed decisions.

Wednesday, March 27, 2019 at 8:00 PM EST

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Dr. Meghna Bhat

 

Dr. Bhat holds a Ph.D. in Criminology, Law, and Justice from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a specialization in Gender and Women Studies. She is a proud South Asian woman and first-generation immigrant from India, and her experiences growing up in India and having lived in the US for 14 years motivated her to become an outspoken advocate for gender equality. Meghna currently lives in Sacramento, CA and is an independent consultant, scholar, speaker, and volunteer.

Submission: “My Experiences with Colorism as a South Asian Immigrant Woman:  How I Learned to Celebrate and Embrace my Skin Color.”

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 Dr. Veronica Huggins

Dr. Huggins is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Southern Indiana where she has taught for three years. She holds a Masters of Social Work from the University of Georgia and a Ph.D. in Social Work from Clark Atlanta University. She holds social work licensure in Georgia and Indiana and has experience working in both micro and macro level capacities.

Website: http://faculty.usi.edu/vchuggins

Submission: What the Health? Major Health Disparities Among Women of Color  (co-author)

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Dr. Phoneshia Wells

Dr. Wells is an Assistant Professor and member of Health Services for the College of Nursing and Health Professions at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, Indiana and has taught for nine years. She obtained her Doctorate of Health Education (D. H. Ed.) from A. T. Still University school of Health Sciences in Kirksville, Missouri. In addition, she is a certified Health Education Specialist (CHES).

Website: http://faculty.usi.edu/pwells

Submission: What the Health? Major Health Disparities Among Women of Color  (co-author)

 

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The Power Within

Join Dr. Culbreth and guests, Dr. Meghna Bhat and Ms. Alicia Thompson, authors and contributors to “Our Voices Our Stories: An Anthology of Writings Advancing, Celebrating, Embracing and Empowering Girls and Women of Color,” for “The Power Within, Episode 4 of the “Our Voices Our Stories Mini-Series.” This episode will focus on the empowerment of girls and women of color personally, academically and professionally. Topics will include how we can empower girls and women of color psychologically, emotionally, physically and socially.

Additional discussion topics will include realizing the power within, self-esteem, self-love, self-identity, self-respect and self-pride, colorism, race,  hair, body image, inner beauty, words of wisdom, self-validation, on being original, defining yourself for yourself, standards of beauty, setting high standards and expectations among other topics.  The episode will also focus on how women of color can inspire, set examples and empower girls and teens of color and the development of coping strategies to deal with race, color and disparate treatment issues.

Monday, March 25, 2019 at 8:00 PM EST

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Listen Live:  The Power Within

Guests

Ms. Alicia Thompson

 Is an international thespian and writer from Jamaica.  She is the founder of Artistry is Ministry (AIM) and known for customized performances of one woman shows and folklore.  Alicia uses artistry to uplift and impact girls and young women to help them deal with issues such as self-image, self-worth and self-realization.  She is an alumni of the Parent Leadership Training Institute (PLTI), Parents Supporting Excellence in Education (SEE), and a past recipient of the Bridgeport Parent Leadership Award.

Submission: “Words of Wisdom from Mother Wise on Beauty and Self-acceptance.”

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Dr. Meghna Bhat

Dr. Bhat holds a Ph.D. in Criminology, Law, and Justice from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a specialization in Gender and Women Studies. She is a proud South Asian woman and first-generation immigrant from India, and her experiences growing up in India and having lived in the US for 14 years motivated her to become an outspoken advocate for gender equality. Meghna currently lives in Sacramento, CA and is an independent consultant, scholar, speaker, and volunteer.

Submission: “My Experiences with Colorism as a South Asian Immigrant Woman:  How I Learned to Celebrate and Embrace my Skin Color.”

About Our Voices Our Stories Mini Series

The Our Voices Our Stories Mini Series consists of five episodes presented in celebration of the publication of the National Girls and Women of Color Council, Inc.’s anthology: Our Voices Our Stories: An Anthology of Writings Advancing, Celebrating, Embracing and Empowering Girls and Women of Color and in celebration of Women’s History Month.

 

Orders for Our Voices Our Stories: An Anthology of Writings Advancing, Celebrating, Embracing and Empowering Girls and Women of Color will be accepted beginning on March 27, 2019 via the website of the National Girls and Women of Color Council, Inc. and books will be shipped in April.

 

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On Being Our Sisters’ Keeper

Our Voices Our Stories Mini Series: Episode 3:  On Being Our Sisters’ Keeper

Join Dr. Culbreth and guests, Ms. Bethany Loper and Dr. Alexanderia Smith, authors and contributors to “Our Voices Our Stories: An Anthology of Writings Advancing, Celebrating, Embracing and Empowering Girls and Women of Color” for a discussion on embracing girls and women of color. This episode will focus on how women of color act, react and interact with other, embrace each other and move within and around each other personally, academically and professionally.  Topics include: jealously, being envious,  race and color, mixed race identity, unity, on loving our sisters, supporting each other through the good, bad and ugly moments, interracial and intraracial unity among women of color, the need to protect, the evil eye, glares, negativity, issues experienced by women of color in the workplace, and the reasons why we embrace girls and women of color, etc.

Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 8:00 PM EST

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Listen Live:  On Being Our Sisters’ Keeper

Guests:

Dr. Alexanderia Smith

Dr. Smith is the South Carolina State Counseling Coordinator for Webster University. She earned a Master of Education Degree in Counseling from the University of Georgia in 2001 and earned her Ph.D. in Counselor Education from the University of South Carolina in 2007.  Dr. Smith is a nationally certified counselor, a licensed professional counselor, as well as a licensed addiction counselor.

Submission:  Black Girl Glare

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 Ms. Bethany Loper

Is a native of Wilmington, Delaware and currently resides in New Castle, Delaware with her family. She is an award-winning poet and author and is currently working on her first novel and poetry book.

Submissions:

• Makidada “Little Sister”
• Healing Prayer
• Unfillable Spaces

 

About Our Voices Our Stories Mini Series

The Our Voices Our Stories Mini Series consists of five episodes presented in celebration of the publication of the National Girls and Women of Color Council, Inc.’s anthology: Our Voices Our Stories: An Anthology of Writings Advancing, Celebrating, Embracing and Empowering Girls and Women of Color and in celebration of Women’s History Month.

 

Orders for Our Voices Our Stories: An Anthology of Writings Advancing, Celebrating, Embracing and Empowering Girls and Women of Color will be accepted beginning on March 20, 2019 via the website of the National Girls and Women of Color Council, Inc. and books will be shipped in April.

 

Link to Listen Live: On Being Our Sisters’ Keeper

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Celebrating Women of Color Writers

Our Voices Our Stories Mini Series: Episode 2:  Celebrating Women of Color Writers

Join Dr Culbreth and guests, Ms. Crystal D. Mayo, Mrs. Loretta Moore and Ms Kim-Marie Walker, authors and contributors to “Our Voices Our Stories: An Anthology of Writings Advancing, Celebrating, Embracing and Empowering Girls and Women of Color.” Discussion topics will focus on how the voices of girls and women of color are celebrated through poetry, essays, plays, novels, fiction, non-fiction, short stories and other writings. Topics also include the healing power of the written word, finding your voice and yourself through writing, passion, purpose, and encouraging girls and teens to write.

Monday, March 18, 2019 at 8:00 PM EST

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Listen Live:  Celebrating Women of Color Writers

Guests:

Ms. Crystal D. Mayo

Ms. Mayo is a writer, actress, educator and teaching artist.  She is a Native New Yorker whose literary works are rooted  in the African American experience. Her memoir, “Evolution of Me” is a literary collection of snapshots that chronicle growing up in the South Bronx during the 1970’s. Her performance piece “Laugh” highlights her mother’s tumultuous journey through her diagnosis of breast cancer. Crystal hopes her readers will read her memoirs and connect to their essence, the human experience. She is the founder of My Daughter My Legacy, an arts and education company that empowers youth to explore their voice and vision through literacy and the arts.

Submission: Ms. Heriot and Remembering Ma Bea

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Mrs. Loretta Moore

Mrs. Moore is a multi-published, African American female writer of novels, poetry, essays and short story collections. To name some published works: From A Narrow Path, The Light Of Day, The Color Of Murder, Saving Grace And Love, The Way Of Love, Bottom Tales And Others. Ghostwriting is another area as a writer she has  enjoyed. Several plays  she has written that have been productions are: Down The Way With Calvin And Boogie, Sharin’ The Spirit, Gossamer’s People, I Been Blest, Churchtime In New Orleans, Riding A Peacock.  She hold a degree in English and  has been applauded for theatrical presentations and as well for successful prose endeavors-I maintain affiliations with theatre and literary organizations.  Mrs. Moore also volunteers in her community and church.

Submission: The Bottom In My Time

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 Ms. Kim-Marie Walker 

Ms. Walker is an author of nonfiction and fiction works. She is an alum of VONA/Voices, Rhode Island Writers Colony, and Wildacres Writing Retreat. Her in-progress travel memoir, Truth’s Place, Part I, chronicles her 2016 solo pilgrimage to historic U.S. transatlantic slave trade ports, honoring America’s first Africans of the Middle Passage.

 Submission:  Ruminoni’s La Luz

About Our Voices Our Stories Mini Series

The Our Voices Our Stories Mini Series consists of five episodes presented in celebration of the publication of the National Girls and Women of Color Council, Inc.’s anthology: Our Voices Our Stories: An Anthology of Writings Advancing, Celebrating, Embracing and Empowering Girls and Women of Color and in celebration of Women’s History Month.

 

Orders for Our Voices Our Stories: An Anthology of Writings Advancing, Celebrating, Embracing and Empowering Girls and Women of Color will be accepted beginning on March 20, 2019 via the website of the National Girls and Women of Color Council, Inc. and books will be shipped in April.

 

Link to Listen Live: Celebrating Women of Color  Writers

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America’s Visibly Invisible Civil War: Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois and Black America Then and Now

Join Dr. Culbreth and guest, Dr. Clifford F. Buttram, Jr., author of “America’s Visibly Invisible Civil War: The Battle Between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois” for a discussion focusing on the intensely ideological and philosophical debate between arguably the two most sociologically and psychologically prolific American Black men: Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois. Topics include:

Integration versus assimilation, racism, racial tensions then and now, a country divided in the millennium, unity, the similarities and differences between Booker T. Washington and W.E. B. DuBois, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcom X, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton; the status of Black America in the millennium, the Civil Rights Movement, the Black church, Black men, women and children, the traumas of slavery, injustices and racism and PTSD in the Black community, education, and the future of Black America.

 

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 8:00 pm EST

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America’s Visibly Invisible Civil War: Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois and Black America Then and Now

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Guest:  Dr. Clifford F. Buttram, Jr.

 

Dr. Clifford F. Buttram, Jr. is a retired U.S. Army officer whose interests in American history and politics are tempered by the realities of how the former always shapes the latter. Currently residing in Fort Wayne, In, he was born in Washington, D.C. and is a 1988 graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he started his Army career as a scholarship ROTC student in 1985. He earned a Masters of Business Administration (2004) and a Master of Arts in Diplomacy (2013) from Baker College in Flint, MI and Norwich University in Northfield, VT, respectively. He earned his Doctor of Business Administration (2011) from the University of Phoenix. His dissertation focused on the Leadership and Management of the African Union.

Following his Army retirement in 2008 that culminated in serving as the Professor of Military Science and Leadership at Eastern Michigan University and as an Army ROTC Regional Liaison at the University of Michigan, he has worked in the post-secondary education field as a School Program Chair, and Academic Dean for ITT Technical Institute in South Bend, IN, Flint, MI, and Fort Wayne. He also worked in the Fort Wayne Community Schools as an English Language Learner Assistant for Burmese students and as a Rehabilitation Services Provider, Manager, and Rehabilitation Skills Coach for the Bowen Center for Human Services.

He is currently serving as the MBA Program Director and Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne and is active in the community with church, non-profit, and veterans’ organizations.

Dr. Buttram is the author of:

America’s Visibly Invisible Civil War:: The Battle Between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois (History) (Volume 2)

 

The African Union: An Organizational Leadership and Management Phenomenological Study

 

Link to listen live:  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/complexitylive/2019/02/28/americas-visibly-invisible-civil-war-washington-dubois-and-black-america  

Preparing Girls of Color for Brilliant Futures

 

Wednesday, May 16, 2018 at 8:00 PM EST.

 

Listen live or call to ask questions, comment or share:  323-642-1562.

Description:

Join Dr. Culbreth for  “Preparing Girls of Color for Brilliant Futures.” Topics include: The unique needs and challenges of girls of color, negative stereotypes, support, mentoring, education, learning, knowledge, skills and abilities, student success, studying, summer activities, college/career preparation, personal time, racial bias in school discipline, families, reality, marginalization, communities, support and higher ground.

     Link:  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/complexitylive/2018/05/17/preparing-girls-of-color-for-brilliant-futures

 

      

 

 

Dementia and Black Americans: Caregiving & Loving While Living With Dementia

 

Wednesday, April 25, 2018 

8:00 PM EST

Listen Live:  Dementia and Black Americans

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Join Dr. Culbreth and guests, Dr. Fayron Epps, Faith Village Connections and Assistant Professor at Georgia State University Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions and affiliate faculty with the Gerontology Institute and Partnership for Urban Health Research.  Ms. Mia Chester, Volunteer & Outreach Manager, Alzheimers Association, Ms. Tonya Miller, CFO, Sage Navigator, Ms. Jacque Thornton, Sr. Vice President, Leading Age Georgia and Board Chair, Sage Navigator for a discussion on how Dementia affects the Black community.

Episode Description 

Dementia is a disease that is considered a “silent epidemic” in the Black community with Black Americans being “two times more likely to develop late-onset Alzheimer’s disease than whites and less likely to have a diagnosis of their condition, resulting in less time for treatment and planning” (Ellis, 2018).  In addition, Black Americans have a higher rate of vascular dementia. (Alzheimer’s Association).

The discussion will focus on defining and diagnosing dementia, symptoms, stress, types of dementia, warning signs, causes, medical trials, treatment, and how Black Americans, especially Black women are affected by Dementia. The discussion will also focus on racism (including environmental racism), poverty, and traumas, quality medical care, the psychological, emotional, physical and social well-being of Black Americans living with Dementia, their caregivers, and family members.

Guests

Dr. Fayron Epps, Faith Village Connections and Assistant Professor at Georgia State University Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions and affiliate faculty with the Gerontology Institute and Partnership for Urban Health Research, Ms. Mia Chester, Volunteer & Outreach Manager, Alzheimers Association, Ms. Tonya Miller, CFO, Sage Navigator, Ms. Jacque Thornton, Sr. Vice President, Leading Age Georgia and Board Chair, Sage Navigator will share strategies focusing on moving from “caregiving to care loving” along with her groundbreaking research on equipping faith communities to become “Dementia Friendly Faith Villages.”

 

The Color of Love: Colorism in Black Brazilian Families

Visibility 

The Dynamics and Complexities of Colorism

Mini Series

 

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

 Link to Listen Live:   The Color of Love: Colorism in Black Brazilian Families

Listener Line:  323-642-1562

(Listeners may call to ask questions, comment or share)

 

Episode Description

 “The Color of Love” will focus on the psychological, emotional, physical, and social effects of colorism on the well-being and growth of Black Brazilian girls and women. Topics include racial hierarchies in families, racial features, hair, light skin, dark skin, children, love, education, jobs, how skin color and other phenotypes affect the self-esteem, self-love, self-identity, self-pride and self-respect of girls and women, visibility, voices, Afro-Aesthetics Movement, differential treatment, and cultural practices, among other topics.

Visibility’s guest is renowned researcher Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman (whose best-selling book, The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families was awarded the American Sociological Association Section on Emotions Book Award and the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interactionism Charles Horton Cooley Book Award.

 

Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman

Biography

Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman is a Tampa native and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida. She received her B.A. from Cornell University and her M.A. & Ph.D. in Sociology from Duke University. Dr. Hordge-Freeman published her first book, The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families (The University of Texas Press) in 2015.  This book was awarded the American Sociological Association Section on Emotions Book Award and the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interactionism Charles Horton Cooley Book Award.  In 2015, she presented a TEDxUSF talk on The Color of Love and her book is slated for publication into Portuguese in April 2018. She has published journal articles in the Journal of Marriage and Family, Qualitative Research, and Ethnic & Racial Studies, several book chapters, and published a co-edited volume with Gladys Mitchell-Walthour entitled, Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production: Diaspora and Black Transnational Scholarship in the US and Brazil (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Hordge-Freeman has been awarded several grants and fellowships to support her research, including a Ford Dissertation Fellowship, American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship, and Ruth Landes Memorial Research Grant. In 2016, Hordge-Freeman received a Fulbright fellowship to complete data collection for a manuscript entitled, Second-Class Daughters: Informal Adoptions as Modern Slavery in Brazil, which is based on over seven years of ethnographic data and interviews.

 

The Dynamics and Complexities of Colorism Mini Series

Join Visibility for “The Dynamics and Complexities of Colorism Mini Series.”

 

March 26, 2018 – April 26, 2018

8:00 PM EST

Listen Live: Complexity Talk Radio

Listener Line: 323-642-1562

Call to ask questions, comment of share

About the Mini-Series

Visibility is producing a mini-series titled “The Dynamics and Complexities of Colorism airing live beginning on March 26, 2018 and ending on April 26, 2018. The six-episode mini-series will focus on girls and women of color as victims of colorism and will explore the psychological, emotional, physical and social traumas of colorism with an emphasis on how colorism affects the self-love, self-esteem, self-identity, self-respect and self-pride of girls and women of color as victims of intraracial and interracial colorism.

Topics will include the complexities of colorism, relationships, film, music, media, the workplace, superiority, inferiority, colorism complex, skin color complexes, education, colorism in Brazil, the effects of colorism on children, girls and women of color, colorism and families, status, understanding the detrimental effects of colorism, learning to embrace differences, myths, healthcare, among other relevant discussion topics.

Episodes

• Monday, March 26, 2018, Introduction to The Dynamics and Complexities of Colorism Mini-Series, Dr. Donnamaria Culbreth
• Wednesday, March 28, 2018: The Color of Love: Colorism in Brazil. Guest, Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman
• Wednesday, April 4, 2018: Colorism in Film, Music and Media, Guest: Dr. Yaba Blay
• Wednesday, April 11, 2018: Colorism in the Workplace, Guest:  Dr. Niambi Powell
• Wednesday, April 18, 2018 Colorism in Relationships, Dr. Cassandra Chaney
• Thursday, April 26, 2018: Girls, Women of Color and Colorism. Guests Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman and other guests.

 

Episodes will air live via: Complexity Talk Radio, Inc.

 

Links for each episode will be shared via Twitter: @Visibility_live, @NGWCC  #colorism #visibility