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by William A. Smith (Foreword by), Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner (Editor), Katrice A. Albert (Editor)
Racial Battle Fatigue is described as the physical and psychological toll taken due to constant and unceasing discrimination, microagressions, and stereotype threat. The literature notes that individuals who work in environments with chronic exposure to discrimination and microaggressions are more likely to suffer from forms of generalized anxiety manifested by both physical and emotional syptoms. This edited volume looks at RBF from the perspectives of graduate students, middle level academics, and chief diversity officers at major institutions of learning.
RBF takes up William A. Smith's idea and extends it as a means of understanding how the "academy" or higher education operates. Through microagressions, stereotype threat, underfunding and defunding of initiatives/offices, expansive commitments to diversity related strategic plans with restrictive power and action, and departmental climates of exclusivity and inequity; diversity workers (faculty, staff, and administration of color along with white allies in like positions) find themselves in a badlands where identity difference is used to promote institutional values while at the same time creating unimaginable work spaces for these workers.Author Biography
Kenneth (Kenny) Fasching-Varner is a Shirley B. Barton Endowed Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University who teaches classes on Critical Race Theory, Multiculturalism, International Education, and Elementary Education. He also serves as the director of the LSU Teaching in Chile Study Abroad Program.
Katrice A. Albert is the vice president for Equity and Diversity at the University of Minnesota. Albert also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Civic Engagement and Scholarship, and her works have been published in the Journal of Counseling Psychology and the Journal of Counseling and Development. Albert is also the co-editor of the forthcoming volume, Trayvon Martin, Race, and American Justice: Writing Wrong. Chaunda M. Allen is the assistant to the vice provost at Louisiana State University as well as the Director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs Roland Mitchell is an associate professor of education at Louisiana State University and the editor of the College Student Affairs Journal and Higher Education Section Editor of the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. He also serves as the associate director of LSU's School of Education.
