Each year the Smith College School for Social Work hosts scholars from around the world who join our community to learn about pedagogy and clinical theory. To help orient our guests and to increase their connections on campus, a welcome dinner will be hosted on Monday, July 25th from 6:00-8:00 p.m. in the King Living Room. Please RSVP with Maddy Neely by sending an email to mneely@smith.edu by July 22, 2016.
Making the Personal Political: Constructions of Race and Space in Communities of Color
Monday, July 25, 2016
7:00 p.m.
Seelye 101
School for Social Work students Kyla Lew, Elizabeth Gonzalez, and Jackie Cosse will present their masters theses in a colloquium on constructions of race and space in communities of color.
Kyla Lew's Thesis: Incarceration, Identity and Resilience: Understanding the Long-Term Psychological Impacts of Racial Trauma on Japanese Americans Who Were Imprisoned During World War II
Elizabeth Gonzalez's Thesis: Toxic Stress: Exploring Mental Health Narratives of Environmental Justice in Richmond, California
Jackie Cosse's Thesis: Deconstructing Latinx Racial Paradigms: Cross-Cultural Constructions of Race and their Impact on Dominican-American Racial Identity.
The colloquium will be moderated by Maria Torres.
For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/events/641730376003234/
Contact: jcosse@smith.edu