Identifying and Reducing Racial Threat in Face-to-Face Encounters
Howard C. Stevenson is the Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education, Professor of Africana Studies, and former chair of the Applied Psychology and Human Development Division in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a nationally recognized clinical psychologist and researcher in independent and public K-12 schools as well as community mental health centers, and teaches how children can develop healthy racial identities through racial stress management. The PLAAY (Preventing Longterm Anger and Aggression in Youth) Project uses basketball and racial socialization to help youth and parents cope with stress from violence, racial, and social rejection. With Penn professors Loretta and John Jemmott, and Christopher Coleman, Stevenson co-leads the SHAPE-UP: Barbers Building Better Brothers Project, which trains Black barbers to be health educators and teach retaliation violence and unsafe sexual risk reduction and negotiation skills to Black 18-24 year old males while they are cutting hair.
His most recent education bestseller book, Promoting Racial Literacy in Schools (Teachers College Press), shifts a focus on race relations away from “colorblind-ness” and avoidance and toward racial literacy, which involves engaging and managing racial stress by actively reading, reducing, and resolving racially stressful encounters when they happen.
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His most recent education bestseller book, Promoting Racial Literacy in Schools (Teachers College Press), shifts a focus on race relations away from “colorblind-ness” and avoidance and toward racial literacy, which involves engaging and managing racial stress by actively reading, reducing, and resolving racially stressful encounters when they happen.
View Ed-Talk Factsheet here.