[BFASA] FW: #BlackintheIvory Website Relaunched + Book Announced!

[Paige M McGee]

Please see an announcement below from Dr. Davis about the re-launch of the Black in the Ivory website<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blackintheivory.net%2F&data=04%7C01%7Csharde.davis%40uconn.edu%7C96db2c7a048942bbd9f008d8c7a2dd8e%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637478849610106295%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=vzwzFxrUbs3%2B8rqIb4MoJwKMUXAQnIp5JuCl7DWKUHs%3D&reserved=0>, and an Open Call for Blackademics for a book project, as well as other opportunities for Blackademics. To learn more about the book project, please see the attached file.

Feel free to share this announcement with those who may be interested.


Best,



Yelda



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Yelda Serin, MA, PhD

Graduate Student Resource Center Coordinator

UC Riverside Graduate Division

Life Sciences Building, Room #1425

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Being #BlackintheIvory:
Contending with Racism in the American University

The Backstory
On the evening of Saturday, June 6, 2020, Dr. Shardé M. Davis created a Twitter hashtag #BlackintheIvory to document the overt and covert racism that Black academics ("Blackademics") across disciplines experience throughout their academic tenure. Dr. Davis, as well as her colleague from graduate school, Joy Woods, began tweeting the hashtag and by Sunday morning thousands used the hashtag on various social media platforms to share their stories. Black in the Ivory(tm) has opened the door for thousands of Blackademics around the globe to share their stories of anti-Black racism in the academy, so much so that the hashtag was in the top 20 trending hashtags on Twitter in the US that weekend. The origin and impact of the "hashtag turned movement" has been featured in over 50 news outlets including The New York Times, Nature, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Open Call For Stories
The Black in the Ivory website<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blackintheivory.net%2F&data=04%7C01%7Csharde.davis%40uconn.edu%7C96db2c7a048942bbd9f008d8c7a2dd8e%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637478849610106295%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=vzwzFxrUbs3%2B8rqIb4MoJwKMUXAQnIp5JuCl7DWKUHs%3D&reserved=0> was re-launched today! Go the website to read the Open Call for Stories and see the link for Blackademics to submit their story. I also attached the Open Call for Stories (.pdf) to this email. Here are a few key details:

The book is a curation of stories that range from short narratives (from the open call) to analytical essays that contextualize a personal incident with theory and research (by invited Black scholars)There's an Open Call for Blackademics to submit an 150-word vignette about a specific, personal experience of anti-Black racism and/or anti-Blackness in the academy
*  Dr. Davis will use these vignettes to determine which ones will be in the book, which ones will remain 150-words, and which ones will get expanded.
*  Vignettes must be submitted via the google form (found at www.blackintheivory.net<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blackintheivory.net%2F&data=04%7C01%7Csharde.davis%40uconn.edu%7C96db2c7a048942bbd9f008d8c7a2dd8e%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637478849610106295%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=vzwzFxrUbs3%2B8rqIb4MoJwKMUXAQnIp5JuCl7DWKUHs%3D&reserved=0>) to be considered for the book One submission per personSubmission Deadline: March 15th 11:59pm Eastern Time

Other Opportunities for Blackademics
The website also announces a new beta community, Blackademic(tm) Social Network, that was birthed out of the rise of the #BlackintheIvory hashtag, as well as the resurgence of the Bless a Black Graduate Student Project (a matching program where anyone from anywhere can send money to Black graduate students via an e-payment app).

Head to  www.blackintheivory.net<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blackintheivory.net%2F&data=04%7C01%7Csharde.davis%40uconn.edu%7C96db2c7a048942bbd9f008d8c7a2dd8e%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637478849610116292%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=7mfjZZQfO5OLQ11snPFMx%2BJJcIdXv6nW4ISW3p3NYu8%3D&reserved=0> to submit your stories and learn more details about the other exciting opportunities that support Blackademics!

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