Telling Identity Stories: Race, Class and Psychology

The capstone conference for the Global Inequality Research Initiative will feature keynote presentations by Stephanie Rowley, a professor in the School of Education, Department of Psychology, and College of Literature, Science and the Arts at the University of Michigan; Brittney Cooper, assistant professor of women's and gender studies and Africana studies; and Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards, assistant professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas, Austin.

Rowley's research examines the development of African-American children and how issues of racial identity, perceptions of stereotypes, parental racial socialization, and racial coping influence the development of academic self-concept in African-American students.

Cooper's work focuses extensively in the area of black women's intellectual history, black feminist thought, and race and gender politics in hip hop and popular culture.

Bentley-Edwards' research focuses on the racial experiences of youth. In particular, she examines how cultural strengths can be used to minimize the negative outcomes related to bullying, racism stress, violence and aggression, and community stressors.

Register here: http://tinyurl.com/GIRICapstoneConferenceFall2015