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In “A Talk to Teachers” (1963), James Baldwin underscored the importance of critically examining how society functions and “trying to change it and to fight it.” Taking heed of Baldwin’s advice, in Bold Truths and Uncomfortable Insights, I theorize that both the fiction and nonf…

This study bridges the gap between self-defense classes whose founders, instructors, and students are predominantly white, advocating for an individualistic and embodied self-defense, compared to the self-defense practiced by women of color that took a different form, communal a…

Systemic racism endures in the United States (Feagin, 2010). The race-related barriers experienced by trainees of color in counseling, clinical, and school psychology programs (Clark et al., 2012; Maton et al., 2011) reflect this reality. Focusing exclusively on the barriers con…