Call for Papers
Racial Battle Fatigue
The National Rites of Passage Institute (ritesofpassage.org), The Black Child Journal (blackchildjournal.com) and The Black Child Development Institute of Cleveland, Ohio (Bcdicleveland.com) are proud to announce a special edition collaboration for our Fall/Winter 2022 issue that focuses on Racial Battle Fatigue and the Black Child. Racial Battle Fatigue (RBF) is a term coined sometime in the early 2000’s by Critical Race Theorist William Smith. It describes negative and racially charged experiences and the effects of race-related stress responses of Blacks in the United States where both the anticipation and experience of racial trauma contribute to RBF. These events have both initiated various racial disparities that result in negative outcomes on one’s health and wellbeing. We invite submissions both by and for parents, families, teachers and other adults who are invested in protecting our youth from the effects of such stressors. These stressors are known to have an adverse impact on adults and children indirectly when children are exposed to less than healthy behaviors on the part of some adults. We suspect that as individuals are continuously exposed to racism via schools, the media, and government institutions, there may even be direct effects of RBF in and among children.
We believe that RBF is an important way to understand solution focused responses to the effects of race related experiences in children, their parents, teachers and the community. We invite submissions that address the following:
• Is it possible that a Black child or teenager might actually experience cumulative effects of RBF? What behavioral signs or psychological symptoms might be associated with such fatigue? Does development fatigue in children and youth have a direct effect in aggressive behavior?
• How might the RBF conceptual framework enhance efforts to alleviate negative behaviors, psychological symptoms and improve the child’s educational environments?
• How might a parent’s or classroom teacher’s fatigue indirectly cause stress or fatigue in a child?
• How does an RBF conceptual framework help to inform the work that you currently do with children and their parents?
• What kinds of strategies might assist parents and or classroom teachers to recognize, prevent or ameliorate the effects of RBF in themselves and in children?
• How do we assist parents and teachers who are battling school wide and/or system wide based Racial Battle Fatigue?
• Are there specific issues of exacerbated RBF effects among Black teachers due to the recent and ongoing pandemic experiences?
We recognize that there has been much prior work in this area related to Afrocentric approaches, rites of passage, racism white supremacy, trauma-informed practices, healing and restorative practices, etc. We are inviting submissions that demonstrate the utility of the RBF framework in furthering the aims of such work.
We invite from parents, teachers, college students, school administrators and policy makers, community service providers, medical and social science practitioners, researchers and academicians, artists - all are encouraged to submit.
Manuscript Guidelines
Overview
Members of the editorial staff of the Black Child Journal and the National Rites of Passage Institute will manage the peer-review process. All parts of the manuscript should be submitted electronically as an attachment to the email (“Manuscript Submission” in the subject box) to blackchildjournal@gmail.com Submissions should be in MS Word documents (.doc) format, not converted to PDF’s, and without embedded commands or special formatting. All photos should be submitted as separate JPEG files. References, tables, charts, other texts, art-graphics, and appendices should be included at the end of the document. Submissions should be received by November 15, 2022 at 11:59 pm (EST). The authors are asked to submit a short bio and a black and white JPEG photo as a separate attachment. Notification of papers selected for publication will be made by email - Unsolicited manuscripts are welcomed.
When submitting your article for consideration, please ensure it conforms to the following guidelines:
- Title page. A title page should be a completely separate page that includes the following:
- Title of the manuscript
- All authors’ full name(s) with academic degree(s), affiliations, and email addresses.
- The corresponding author should be clearly designated.
- Abstract and Keywords. Each manuscript must include a brief abstract of approximately 250 words. Authors should also supply three to five keywords that are not in the title.
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Journal Content (2013-2021)
Fall 2020, SOCIAL MEDIA, COVID-19, and THE BLACK CHILD
- Tribute to Brother Dr. Conrad Worrill
- Social Media an Optimal Health: An African Centered Healing Perspective, Jawara Hunter. M.D.
- COVID Crisis Chaos, Honey Bell-Bey
- African Centered Rites of Passage an Embracing African Dance during the Worldwide Pandemic, Neico S. Slater-Sa-Ra, Ph.D.
- The Significance of This Moment: Implications for Educating the Black Child, Lathardus Goggins II, Mia K. Street, and Vanessa Webster-Davis
- Black Challenges of COVID-19: Food Labor and Health, paul hill, jr.
- Transformational Time: How Technology is Impacting Youth Activism an ED Reform, M.AYA Hill Reed
- A Counter Racist Analysis of the Black Panther Film Phenomenon, Sabrina Johnson
Spring 2020, The Socialization of The Black Child Since 1619
- Art As Method: A Crafted Counter-Story Of Urban Experiences And Implications For Educating Black Youth, Vanessa M. Jones, PH.D.
- Tactics That Work: African American Diaspora Space Families And Guardians Of The Generations, Deborah Wasserman, PH.D., Fanon Hill
- The Rites Of Passage For African Boys, Robin Walker, B.S.
- Conceptual Confusion And The Persistence Of Group Oppression Through Education, Asa Hilliard, PH.D.
- Toolkit #5 African American Theory, Practice and Curriculum: Selected Resources For Serious Afrikan Practitioners Of Afrikan and Afrikan American Rites of Passage Programs, Atiba Coppock, PH.D.
Spring, 2019, Faith and the Black Child
- How are the Children, Sharon Lee Minor
- Preaching On Issues Of Economic Justice, Marvin A. McMickle, PH.D
- Where Have All The Hero's Gone, Paul Hill, Jr, MSW
- How Are The Children, Useni Eugene Perkins
- The Black Church As An Incubator Of Youth Faith Development, Nolan Shaw, D. Min.
- Children, Adolescence, And Spirituality, Reverend Kenneth Todd
2018, HEALTH AND THE BLACK CHILD
- Memorial Tribute to Lerone Bennett, Jr
- Building African American Family Strengths With An Afrocentric Foundation, Wade Nobles, PH.D
- What Resilient Adolescents Know, Lonna P. Gordon, M.D., PHARMD.
- Traumatic Stress and Children, Carl Bell. M.D.
- Black Men and Suicide: A Phenomenon or An Escape, Paul Hill, Jr, MSW, LISW
- Optimal Health for Our Families, Jawara Hunter, M.D.
- African American Pre-Adolescent and Adolescent Perceptions of Health Risk Factors, Le’ Roy E. Reese, PH.D
2018, INTERNATIONAL RITES OF PASSAGE
- Memorial Tribute to Sharon McBean-Antonio
- The Rites of Passage For African Boys, Robin Walker, BSC (HONS) Economics
- “I Found My Tribe: An Evaluation of Woodgreen Community Services Rites of Passage Program, Tana Turner, M.A.
- African Heritage Education, Racial Socialization and Resilience, MSW, Christine A. Davis, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Practiced Based Research Paper (2012)
- African Inspired Rites of Passage in Practice and for People of African Descent: Critical Lessons Learned and Cultivated by Practitioners...When There is No Village, Larthardus Goggins II, ED.D & Terrence Shelton, M.S. ED
- Footsteps in The Forest Rites of Passage At The Marlowe Wilderness Retreat, Paul Reid
- Parents and Afrocentric Processes, The Need for Parents from the African Diaspora In the UK to Experience Afrocentric Transformation Processes, Eli Anderson, Marleen Joseph & Clifton McDonald
- ToolKit#5 Afrikan American Theory, Practice, and Curriculum: Selected Resources for Serious Afrikan Practitioners of Afrikan and Afrikan American Rites of Passage Programs, Atiba Coppock, PH.D
2017, EDUCATION AND THE BLACK CHILD
- Conceptual Confusion and the Persistence of Group Oppression Through Education, Asa Hilliard, PH.D.
- A Psychological Theory of Educating the Black Child, Bobby Wright, PH.D.
- Society First, Kiahro Hilton
- Strength in Families: The Journey Project Model for Engaging Low Income Black Families in Children's Education, Deborah Wasserman, Ph.D., Ayize Shawn J. Sabater, and Fanon Hill
- Experiencing Culture, Encouraging Learning: The National African American Museum of History and Culture, Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, PH.D.
- The Emergence of Social Emotional Learning and the Implications for the Black Child, Larthardus Goggins II, ED.D.
- Zora Reminded Me to Apologize: The Aya's Family-Lore Project, Wekesa O. Madzimoyo
- African Education: Engine For Our Liberation, Mzee Sanyika Anwisye
- Educating Children and Youth of African American Descent in the 21st Century, Bernida Thompson, PH.D.
2016, RACISM (WHITE SUPREMACY) AND THE BLACK CHILD
- Photo Collage of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing With Family, Friends, and Colleagues
- My Personal Reflection By Lorne Cress Love
- The Significance of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing's Paradigm For African/Black Psychology, Kobi Kambon, PH.D
- Codes of Behavioral Conduct for Black Children, Neely Fuller
- Praise Song For Dr. Frances Cress Welsing Our Race Champion, Mama Marimba Ani
- The Cress Welsing Institute of Psychiatry And Social Research: Unparalleled Mechanism For Learning, Healing, And Problem Solving, Sabrina Johnson
- Creative Expressions, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
- Melodies for Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, Camara Jules P. Harrell
- The Intergenerational Power and Impact of Frances Cress Welsing's Theory of Color Confrontation, Kmt G. Shockley and Leniles Frazer
- "I Guess I Trust My Kid's School": Parent-Teacher Relationship and Parental Involvement Practices of Low-Income African American Mothers, Dina C. Walker-Devose, PH.D.
- Freedom Requires Vigilance, Sala D. Damali
- Roots of The Maafa: The Origins of White Supremacy Racism in Slavery in the U.S, Anthony Mitchell, ED.D
2016, GUARDIANS OF THE GENERATIONS
- Tactics That Work: African American Diaspora Space Families And Guardians of the Generations, Deborah Wasserman, Ph.D., Fanon Hill
- We Are Ancestors (An Anthem for the Maroon People), Farika Berhane
- Compromised Parenting and Community Violence in the African American Community, William Oliver, PH.D
- Community Parenting: Recreating an Approach to the success of Black Youth, Jacquelyn F. Green, PH.D
- The Role of Grandfathers, Paul Hill, Jr, MSW, LISW
2015, SELF-DETERMINATION
- Looking From the Bridge: The Road Behind And The Road Ahead, Paul Hill, Jr, MSW, LISW
- Kujichagulia--Self-Determination: A Culturally Appropriate Community and Family Driven and Asset-Based Youth Reclamation Project, Jerry Watson, PH.D and Gregory Washington, PH.D
- Physical, Mental & Spiritual Practices Needed For Optimal Self-Determination, Jacquelyn Green
- The Avalon Carver Community Center's Winners Sankofa Project: An Evaluation Of An African-Centered Model Of Culturally Specific Alcohol, Tobacco And Other Drug Prevention Youth Practice, Darnell Bell, Phillip Nunn, Anthony B. Mitchell, PH.D
- Literature Of Combat Poetry Of Afrikan Liberation Movements, Useni Eugene Perkins
2014, THE ARTS AND BLACK CHILD
- Art: Hard Words and Clear Songs, The Writing Of Black Poetry By Haki R. Madhubuti
- The Rite of Dance, Melissa Michaels, ED.D
- Developing Dramatic Material For Black Children, Useni Eugene Perkins
- The Absence Of African American Dance In School Dance/Physical Education Curricula, Frank Ross
- The Story Of Me, Kahabi Ganka Isangula, M.D., M.P.H.
- Nurturing the Artistic Spirit Of Black Children Through Creative Community Parenting, Amira Millicent Davis, PH.D
- Strong Art Strong Youth: An Investigation On Strengthening And Promoting Equitable Out-Of-School Time Youth Programs In Baltimore City, Fanon Hill, Peter Bruun
- Storytelling For Life: How Storytelling Serves The Overall Development Of Black Children And Their Struggle To Survival, Edith Mcloud Armstrong
- The Art Of Teaching Culturally Specific Drama To Youth, Runako Page
- Sankofa Village For The Arts: Building A New African Village For The Future Generations, Anthony B. Mitchell, Ph.D., Moses Perkins, Darrell D. Baldwin, Arnell Glover-Page
- Developing Future Positive Citizens, Naomi E. Millender-Page
- Art As Method: A Crafted Counter Story Of Urban Experiences And Implications For Educating Black Youth, Vanessa M. Jones, PH.D
2014, THE BLACK CHILD--FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
- Clothed In Our Right Mind, Paul Hill, Jr, MSW, LISW
- Growing Up In The Midst Of Violence: Exploring Its Impact On Children, Natasha Harris
- Mothering The Afrikan Community, Amir Millicent Davis, PHD
- Project Eighteen: A Pilot Community Prevention Program, Michael Edwards, ED.D, and Gloria Jackson Bacon, M.D., M.P.H.
- African American Grandparents 2014: Grand families Gain Momentum, Jacquelyn F. Green, PH.D
- Cultural Policy: The Missing Tool In The Development Of Black Community Agency And Empowerment, Hubert Jackson-Lawman, Ph.D., Barbara Haile, D.S.W
2013, RITES OF PASSAGE: FOUNDATIONS AND PRACTICES
- Our Sacred Responsibility: The Raising Up of the Black Child, Wade Nobles, PH.D
- Valuing Kujichagulia: A Self-Determination Theory-Based Approach To Evaluating Africentric Rites of Passage Programming, Deborah L. Wasserman, PH.D., and Jason R. Emery, PH.D.
- African-Centered Rites of Passage As An Effective Tool For African American Students' Academic Success, Lathardus Goggins II, ED.D
- Rites of Passage: The "Rite To Success" For African American Girls, Jacquelyn F. Green, PH.D
- Photo Essay of the Tsrupke and Gefia in the Volta Region of Ghana, West Africa, Useji Eugene Perkins
- Bethany House Academy: A Pan-African, African-Centered Model For Implementing An International Rites of Passage Program For Urban Adolescent African-American Males, Anthony B. Mitchell, PH.D
- The Rites of Passage: As A Cultural Retooling Process For Black Youth In Their Adolescent To Adulthood Transition, Lance Williams, PH.D
- Rites of Passage In Prison Settings: Interrupting Rituals Of Mass Incarceration, Randolph G. Potts, PH.D
- Rites of Passage From A Biblical And Socio-Cultural Perspective With A View Toward Helping African-American Faith-Based Institutions To Achieve Cultural Integrity And Spiritual Transformation, Nolan Shaw, PH.D
- Themes Or Topics In Rites of Passage Curriculum, Jerry Watson, PHDMSW, Troy Harden, ED.D, LCSW and Gregory Watson, Ph.D., LCSW
- Adolescent Rites of Passage: History, Backgrounds, Goals, Mafori Moore, Gwen Gilyard, Karen King-King, Nsenga Warfield-Coppock, PH.D
- Creating And Supporting The Village To Raise The Child, Paul Hill, Jr, MSW, LISW