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NYU Librarian Bemoans 'Racial Fatigue' From Being Around Whites
Topic Started: Jul 19 2017, 09:48 AM (5 Views)
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(One News Now) After being subjected to too much time with too many white people at an academic conference, a black New York University (NYU) librarian complained in a recent blog that she is the latest victim of “racial fatigue” – from having to endure being “in the presence of white people” for an extended period of time.

Describing the trade conference that she attended for those in the library profession as if it were a five-day prison term, April Hathcock – who identifies as a “Scholarly Communications Librarian at NYU” – claimed that she came away from the event with a severe mental affliction that can apparently only be shaken by white people steering clear of her.

“I just spent the last 5 days at the American Library Association annual conference in Chicago, and I am suffering serious race fatigue,” “Hathcock wrote in her personal blog post titled “ALA Race Fatigue,” that she published last month after attending the event. “Race fatigue is a real physical, mental and emotional condition that people of color experience after spending a considerable amount of time dealing with the micro- and macro-aggressions that inevitably occur when in the presence of white people. The more white people, the longer the time period, the more intense the race fatigue.”

-Read more: https://www.onenewsnow.com/culture/2017/07/19/nyu-librarian-bemoans-racial-fatigue-from-being-around-whites
-Read more: https://aprilhathcock.wordpress.com/2017/06/27/post-ala-race-fatigue/
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