Join us for an eye-opening online event where we'll explore racial trauma, how it affects us and how we can manage it moving forward.
The effects of racism encompass racial abuse, racial trauma, and racial battle fatigue, and can manifest intergenerationally across multiple generations. Historical trauma is the “cumulative emotional and psychological wounding over a lifespan and across generations, emanating from massive group experiences” (Brave Heart, 1998). Any people whose culture has a history of oppression or genocide may experience the effects of trauma handed down generationally. History, as it relates to the Black experience, is a common thread that connects ancestral traumatic experiences to present-day historical events that have occurred across our lifespan, and we often use history as a metaphoric map or timeline that guides those experiences toward our future.
However, there is a noticeable disparity in historical awareness of racism between Black and white communities. White individuals often show little historical knowledge of racism in isolated incidents and systemic manifestations of racism. Therefore, their lack of knowledge and understanding of racism from the past strongly suggests a lack of knowledge and understanding of racism in the present day, and provides a foundation for denial and inaction about injustice. This phenomenon helps perpetuate historical racial trauma among Black people.
Dr Norwood will discuss how racial trauma affects us, and how we can work together to manage it.
Event speaker
Dr Carlette Norwood
Dr Norwood holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham, Edgbaston and specialises in racial microaggressions and historical racial trauma. She has delivered workshops and webinars across the UK on varying topics within the framework of historical racial trauma, racial battle fatigue, and anti-racism training. Dr Norwood has presented to diverse audiences in the US and British academia, private sector organisations, and charities. She has provided anti-racism training at several UK universities including the University of Birmingham, the University of Surrey, the University of Sheffield, and the University of Sussex. Most recently, Dr Norwood appeared as an invited guest panellist at the University of Westminster’s “Challenging Racisms: Welcome & Intersections of Black and Female Academia.” Her most recent publication is a qualitative study that explores supervisor relationships with minority ethnic post-graduate researchers. Dr Norwood is a certified life coach and PhD mentor to minority ethnic students. She uses her academic knowledge and lived experiences to mentor and support post-graduate researchers and students. Currently, Dr Norwood is a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham.
Prior to her academic career, Carlette had an extensive corporate background in the fields of travel, tourism, and hospitality, with previous Executive/Directorship roles in meetings/events, and conference and tradeshow management.
