Black people’s care for one another in universities can be life-giving, yet the conditions in which Black people perform this labor can be coercive and detrimental to those who care. Caleb Dawson, Adia Harvey Wingfield, and Bianca C. Williams interrogate the costs that Black people face for caring in the university and imagine freedom from these conditions.

Panelists

Caleb Dawson is an Abolition Democracy Dissertation Fellow, Black Studies Collaboratory, and a PhD candidate in Critical Studies of Race, Class, and Gender in the Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley.

Adia Harvey Wingfield is a professor of arts and sciences and vice dean for faculty development and diversity at Washington University, St. Louis.

Bianca C. Williams is an associate professor in anthropology, women and gender studies, and critical psychology at The Graduate Center, CUNY.