The Center for Antiracist Research hosts the 3rd Annual National Antiracist Book Festival on Saturday, April 30th. This festival highlights and celebrates the work of various antiracist authors across the country. BUSSW Prof. Phillipe Copeland, in his role as the Center’s assistant director of narrative, will moderate a panel discussion titled “On Guns” featuring authors […]
Prof. Daniel Jacobson López will speak at the panel, “Deconstructing Inclusion: Beyond a Seat at the Table,” hosted by the Brown School for Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. Expanding diversity and inclusion in social work empowers voices that are often unheard. Prof. Jacobson López has done extensive work on how intersecting identities […]
BUSSW Prof. Phillipe Copeland, in his role as the director of narrative at BU’s Center for Antiracist Research, has helped organize screenings at BU and in Boston for the Donkeysaddle Projects film “There is a Field.” The film explores Black-Palestinian solidarity around the murder of Palestinian Asel Asleh. Prof. Phillipe Copeland also helped develop a […]
For too long, the dialogue around immigrant mental health and alcohol use has undervalued the role that structural factors play. Past research focused on individual or cultural reasons for why certain groups relied on drinking alcohol to cope with mental health issues, which often led to ineffective interventions for Latinx immigrants. However, new studies are […]