Brown Skin, White Minds: Exploring Oppression’s Most Insidious Consequence

Centering the experiences of Filipino Americans – a historically forgotten, understudied, and underserved group – this talk will discuss how internalized oppression may exist and operate within us and outside of our awareness, intention, or control.

E. J. R. David, PhD is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Alaska Anchorage, specializing in ethnic minority psychology. He has produced four books: Brown Skin, White Minds: Filipino -/ American Postcolonial Psychology (2013), Internalized Oppression: The Psychology of Marginalized Groups (2014), The Psychology of Oppression (2017), and We Have Not Stopped Trembling Yet (2018). He was the 2012 American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program Early Career Award in Research for Distinguished Contributions to the Field of Racial and Ethnic Minority Psychology; the 2013 Asian American Psychological Association Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research; and in 2015 he was inducted as a Fellow by the Asian American Psychological Association for “Unusual and Outstanding Contributions to Asian American Psychology.”

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