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Race, Fear, and the American Way - Lisa L. Moore, PhD, LICSW (Webinar live online)
2026 Grand Rounds Series
The deployment of racialized fear as a political strategy has a profound impact on the individuals and communities who are targeted as objects of fear. In our current climate the use of fear as a tool of racialization is an important site for practitioners to consider in their work not solely with clients who are targets, but also when considering the work of clinical practice. This presentation will
consider the framework of fear and racialization as conceived in the historic work of Frantz Fanon through the work of Afro Futurists who offer language and framing for holding sites of possibility in the Black imaginary in the midst of oppressive conditions of the present. While Blackness is an origin site of this discussion of fear, understanding the application of these concepts may be of
significant utility in our current climate to individuals, practices, and spaces who may be targeted as objects of fear. This presentation will center the significance of understanding what fear can do to people, while identifying the necessity of holding autonomous sites of possibility for both the client, practitioner, and communities in which people reside.
Target Audience
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Learning Objectives
- Describe Fanon's framing of the dehumanization of Black bodies
- Recognize the use of strategies applied to individuals who are described as being sites of "fear" and consider interventions
- Identify the approaches for considering the spaces of imagining liberation and possibility for those who are navigating fears of harm
Lisa L. Moore, PhD, LICSW, is a senior lecturer and director of the A.M. Program in Social Work, Social Policy, and Social Administration at the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. Lisa earned her MSW at Smith College School for Social Work and her PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Her current active scholarship considers the function of spatial mourning in the experiences of Black LGBTQ+ Elders from the South Side of Chicago as part of the Intergenerational Dialogue project, a collaboration with Drs. Karen Morris (SAIC), Adam Greteman (SAIC), and Nie Westrate (UIC). Dr. Moore presented clinically for over 26 years, until she paused in 2023. Her clinical work has focused primarily on working with BIPOC individuals, families, and couples/relationships, with a special focus on working with people who have experienced physical and sexual trauma. She will be re-opening a small practice in spring of 2026 focused on clinical supervision and post-divorce relationship groups, name forthcoming. She resides in Chicago with her two sons and a 2-year old party poodle named Sadiki.
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