HR!Day622 - Systemic Racism Day 2: A Conversation with Black Men About Personal, Societal, and/or Global Challenges and Resilience
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This Week: Shedding The Shackles of Systemic Racism
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We all live simultaneously in three life spaces—a personal life space, a societal life space, and a global life space. Personal life experiences involve people, events, and circumstances with which we have “direct face-to-face contact”. Societal and global life space experiences involve people, events, and circumstances with which we have “indirect contact” (not face-to-face), but they may and can have significant impact on us.
It is in this context that Black men particularly have experienced centuries of anti-black, race-linked challenges and have had to continually access and exhibit remarkable resilience in the face of the many “imposed shackles” of systemic racism in their personal, societal, and/or global life spaces (e.g, the impact of Jim Crow laws and their nuanced iterations over the years up to the present like Florida’s stand your ground law & its rejection of proposed AP African American class in high schools). Such resilience is rooted in ancestral and spiritual energies, sometimes consciously and/or sometimes unconsciously accessed.
The purpose of these conversations, therefore, is to solicit observations, views, and perspectives from some Black men about various personal, societal, and/or global issues and dynamics that they have witnessed directly and/or indirectly related to systemic racism and how Black men particularly have had to demonstrate and exhibit resilience historically throughout the years.
Convener
- Dr. Carroy (Cuf) Ferguson has a Ph.D. in Psychology from Boston College. He has been President or Co-President of the Association for Humanistic Psychology for many years, making history in 2006 as the first African American and first person of color to be President of this national Association since its founding in 1962 by world-renown psychologists in the field like Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers. He is a tenured Full Professor and former Dean at University of Massachusetts-Boston, currently serves as Human Services Program Director and Human Service Internship Coordinator, is a co-founder of two visionary organizations (Interculture, Inc. and Associates in Human Understanding), is a co-founder of Massachusetts’ historic Commonwealth Diversity Fellows Program, has been a clinical practitioner for over 35+ years, is a member of a number of boards, is a human relations, multicultural, and organizational development consultant, and workshop facilitator, is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, and is a published author of books, articles, and other writings (e.g., Evolving The Human Race Game; A New Perspective on Race and Color; Transitions in Consciousness from an African American Perspective; and Innovative Approaches to Education and Community Service).
Panelists
- Dr. Jemadari Kamara has a Ph.D. from University of Michigan. He is a former Dean at UMass Boston, is a former multi-time Chair of the University’s Africana Studies Department, is a Full Professor of Africana Studies at the campus, and is also Founding Director of the Center for African, Caribbean and Community Development at the campus. In the academy, he previously taught at Brandeis University (1970s), served as Director of the William Monroe Trotter House at University of Michigan, Chair of the African and Afro-American Studies Department at the University of Michigan Flint (1980s), and was a Fulbright Scholar at the Universite Nationale du Benin in Cotonou, Benin and Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Universite Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis, Senegal. Beyond the academy, he also served as the Development Consultant for the Societe Africaine de Technologie Appropriee et Developpment (S.A.T.A.D.) in Cotonou, Benin. In the 1990s, he helped to found and continues to coordinate the Annual Martin Luther King, Jr./Amilcar Cabral Commemorative Program. Also, he collaborated in developing the Community Action Information Network (CAIN), which assisted community-based organizations in applying technology and data-based information to community-defined purposes for development. Additionally, he serves as an international coordinator for the Youth Education and Sports (YES) with Africa Program, which has served 3000+African youth. Among his numerous publications is State of the Race—Creating Our 21st Century, which won the Charshee McIntrye Award and was named the African Heritage Studies Association Outstanding Book of the year. He is also Editor of Socially Responsible Investment and Economic Development. Currently, he is editing The Interrogating Gaze: Resistance, Transformation and Decolonizing Praxis which will be published later this year.
- Dr. Thomas A. Gordon, Ph.D. is the Founder & Principal, of TAGA Consulting. He has 35+ years of executive, enterprise, and systems consulting experience in leadership and performance paradigms, change strategy, communications and conflict resolution, health and mental health, diversity and culturally competent inclusion, teambuilding, and organizational dynamics. TAGA Consulting designs and delivers capacity-building, collaborative, culturally competent, customized systems effectiveness seminars, coaching, interventions, and leadership consultation. A licensed psychologist, Dr. Gordon graduated cum laude from Harvard University; earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan; and completed post-doctoral mass media and conflict resolution study at the University of Pennsylvania/Annenberg School of Communications. Dr. Gordon’s psychologist career spans 35+ years –as college professor, health and mental health systems manager, psychotherapist, and now advisor to organizations on a wide range of leadership, change, and performance challenges. His faculty affiliations have included: The University of Michigan, Temple University, The University of Pennsylvania, Antioch College, Goddard College, Department of Psychiatry/Thomas Jefferson University, and Family Medicine/Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Gordon serves on the Health Promotion Council’s Board of Directors. He is past Treasurer of The Association of Black Psychologists and ex-President of its Delaware Valley chapter. He is married, the father of 5 adults, and grandfather to 9 young children. Dr. Gordon is an avid, lifelong learner: He travels globally, has coached pre-adolescent basketball, speaks Spanish and Swahili, plays tenor saxophone, and mentors rising business and social science professionals.
- Dr. Alix Cantave is a Senior Program Officer at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, working in partnership with the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) team based in Mexico City. He is responsible for identifying and nurturing positive, systemic change within communities, executing programming efforts aligned with the strategic programming functions of the overall foundation and implementing a micro regional strategy in Haiti in collaboration with other LAC staff, and leading the Haiti team. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2011, Dr. Cantaqve was the Associate Director of the William Monroe Trotter Institute at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, where he established and managed a consortium of 20 colleges and universities in the United States, Canada, Spain and the Caribbean to support the rebuilding and improvement of higher education in Haiti. Other professional experiences include serving as: Economic Development Program Officer for the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) in Boston (1999-2006); Founding Director, Haitian Studies Association/Haitian Studies Project at the University of Massachusetts (1994-1999); and Research Associate, Harvard University Immigration Projects, Harvard University Graduate School of Education (1997-1999). Dr. Cantave has also been a lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Boston Africana Studies Department, where he taught undergraduate courses on Caribbean studies and research methods in Haiti as part of a partnership with State University of Haiti National Institute of Administration, Management and International Studies and at the Tufts UniversityDepartment of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning in Medford, Massachusetts. Dr. Cantave holds a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Massachusetts; a Master of Science in City and Regional Planning from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York; and a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design from SUNY in Buffalo, New York.
Co-convener:
- Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University
60 Participants
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