The Race, Racism and Racial Equity (R3) Symposium is a series of virtual events that brings together scholars and researchers from across campus to share their work with Carolina and the broader community.
We will provide context on the state of race at UNC and in the U.S., complementing the work of the Chancellor’s Commission on History, Race and a Way Forward. R3 will also highlight the stellar and innovative work of our graduate researchers. R3 is co-hosted by the University Office for Diversity and Inclusion, the Jordan Institute for Families and Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, UNC School of Social Work.
The second in the R3 series, “Cultural Industry, Techno-capitalism, and Labor: The Mediated Exploitation of Black and Brown Bodies,” featured scholars from across UNC, including Business and Communications, who shared their work addressing issues of language, representation, cultural appropriation, and decontextualization of Black and Brown labor as it appears through a variety of media.
TRAVIS ALBRITTON is a Clinical Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at UNC-CH’s School of Social Work. He is the Director of the Chapel Hill 3-Year MSW Program and the Faculty Liaison for the Dual Degree MSW/M.Div. program. Dr. Albritton is the chairperson for the School of Social Work diversity committee and he serves on the University’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council. Dr. Albritton was selected by the Council on Social Work Education to receive a competitive scholarship to participate in the Management Development Program offered by the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research interests include educational equity in K-12, academic achievement among Black males and the importance of closing educational opportunity gaps for children of all ages. He has presented nationally on various topics including Critical Race Theory, the importance of critical conversations in the classroom and the educational needs of Black male high school students.
KIARA CHILDS is a fourth year doctoral student in the Department of Communication at UNC. She is from Milwaukee, WI and earned her B.A in Journalism and Strategic Communication and Women and Gender Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is passionate about Black beauty culture, Black women, and social media. Currently, she studies Black women’s digital culture and how social media is both a place of invisibility and visibility for Black women. When she’s not teaching or studying for comprehensive exams, she may be running a campus organization’s social media account. In her free time she loves to indulge in skin care, try tacos around the Raleigh-Durham area, and connect with friends and family.
ASHLEY A. MATTHEIS is a PhD. Candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Doctoral Fellow with the Center for Analysis of the Radical Right. Her work brings together cultural studies, media studies, and rhetorical criticism, through the lens of intersectional feminist theory to explore the material effects of cultural production and consumption. Along with her PhD., she is completing a graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies. Her areas of inquiry include communicative processes of manufacturing consent to cultural hegemony, online media using gendered logics to circulate racism, and exploring how media are used in ongoing attempts to ontologize racial difference. Her dissertation. “Fierce Mamas: New Maternalism, Social Surveillance, and the Politics of Solidarity,” analyzes how motherhood discourses and mothering practices are used socially, and by mothers themselves, to divide women along multiple vectors of identity.
Julia Yi is a 3rd year PhD student in the Division of Speech & Hearing Sciences at UNC–Chapel Hill and is under the mentorship of Dr. Karen Erickson of the Center for Literacy and Disability Studies. She has a background in speech language pathology and is interested in studying language and literacy, particularly among populations who are confined (i.e. in correctional facilities, juvenile justice systems) and where there exists a highly disproportionate percentage of those with language and literacy impairments.
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