When: Wednesday January 15th, 2025 at 15.00-16.30 GMT.

Where: This is an online event on MS Teams.

Event Details:

Join Professor Angelique M. DavisLink opens in a new window and Dr Rose ErnstLink opens in a new window to learn more about racial gaslighting, which they define as “the political, social, economic and cultural process that perpetuates and normalizes a white supremacist reality through pathologizing those who resist” (Davis & Ernst, 2017, p.1). This one-hour talk will cover the origins and definition of racial gaslighting and how to recognize it. This includes how racial gaslighting was utilized in the US legal cases of Korematsu v. United States (1944) and Kentucky v. Braden (1955) and how it continues today. We will also discuss how to distinguish racial gaslighting from other forms of racism, such as microaggressions, and briefly introduce our 5-D framework that participants can use to respond to this manifestation of white supremacy.

Bios

Angelique M. Davis is a Professor of Political Science and African and African American Studies at Seattle University. Her research concentrates on racial gaslighting, dehumanisation, apologies and reparations, the socio-legal construction of race, and the reinvention of white supremacy in the twenty-first century. In addition to her academic pursuits, Professor Davis served as a Commissioner on the Seattle Civil Service Commission (2013-2022), owns Exhale Academic Writing Retreats, and is a coach and campus workshop facilitator for the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD).
 

Rose Ernst is an honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick. Rose was previously the Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science at Seattle University. Her research empirically investigates and theorises political phenomena traditionally ignored or hidden in public policy debates. Such subjects include welfare politics, street-level bureaucracy, race, gender, and class inequality, antiracist social movement organising, pedagogies of intersectionality, processes of racialisation, and racial gaslighting in the United States.

This seminar is free and open to all, but advance registration is required.

To register for a place, CLICK HERE.

If you have any questions about the event, please email cswg-events@warwick.ac.uk

If you have accessibility requirements or there are any adjustments we can make to support your full participation, you can let us know through the booking page above.

This event is organised by the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender.

If you wish to receive information about CSWG events, please subscribe to our mailing list.