Colita Nichols Fairfax
Biographic Data
| ID | 84550 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colita Nichols Fairfax |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colita Nichols |
| FAMILY NAME | Fairfax |
| SIGNATURE | FAIRFAX C N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norfolk State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-3271-610X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Outsider Preservation
ContentsIntroduction: What is Outsider Preservation?Andrea RobertsPlacekeeping Amid Racialized Disinvestment: The Klondike Memory ProjectMargaret Haltom and Randall GarrettOutsider Archiving: Every
Examining the Political Opportunity Structure Through a Case Study of Willie Dell, African American City Councilwoman
Data regarding the involvement of trained African American women social workers in the political arena is typically found among those who occupy positions at the national level in the United States Congress. However, African American women have been engaged with their localities to effectuate change for decades, as Willie Jones Dell broke a barrier in the city of Richmond, Virginia in 1973, becoming the first African American woman on City Counci…
A Seat at the Table
Lessons Learned from the CSWE Task Force to Advance Anti-Racism in the Social Work Education Policy and Accreditation Standards
On May 25, 2020, Mr. George Floyd, a Black man, was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a White police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In response to this disgusting display of police brutality, thousands of people all over the world began protesting Mr. Floyd's killing. The Capital of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia, became one of many flashpoints for the public's rage against white supremacy and systemic racism as thousands of people flooded the …
Posttraumatic Slave Syndrome, the Patriarchal Nuclear Family Structure, and African American Male–Female Relationships
African American marriages and relationships have strived to model the white patriarchal nuclear family model, but the experiences of slavery and contemporary structural racism have prevented the attainment of this model. Posttraumatic slave syndrome offers a framework that allows social workers to place African American experiences within a trauma-informed perspective and think about their implication for trauma-specific interventions. This arti…
The significance of African-centered social work for social work practice
In order to respond to concomitant factors that impact members of the extensive African Diasporic community, African-centered theory/Afrocentricity warrants elevation in the social work literature and scientific inquiry. In preparing for this special journal issue, the editors recognized the dearth of scholarship advancing this critical perspective in social work. This special issue provides information on both philosophical and conceptual thinki…
Community practice and the Afrocentric paradigm
Community practice was developed by social reformers after Black people created communities after enslavement. Given America's apartheid system of segregation, Black social leaders, also referred to as social reformers, were creating institutions and systems that not only attended to human needs but also affirmed culture, family, and traditions. As the Afrocentric perspective reinterpreted African philosophy, socioeconomic/political realities, an…
African philosophy
Social work is an applied science of the best approaches and practices to populations that have been systemically dispossessed of themselves, their humanity, and the philosophical constructs that reflect their psychological and cultural processes. There is a fundamental need for social workers to learn the importance of philosophy in theory and practice, so that interventions are based out of relevant frameworks in a people’s long history. Africa…
Vivian Carter Mason and Interracial Cooperation During the Massive Resistance Era in Virginia
Vivian Carter Mason successfully utilized her social work skills during the Massive Resistance Era in Virginia. Through organizational strategies with black and white women, her leadership was indispensable, as a social worker who focused on human and civil rights. Her skills were not merely a substructure of the civil rights movement, rather her work provided a major dimension of women’s leadership through the creation of the Women’s Council for…
A Historical Account of Community Mobilization in Public Education in Early Twentieth-Century African America
Miss Virginia Randolph was a historic pioneer in teaching and community mobilizing for African American children and community in early twentieth-century Henrico County, Virginia. She created a viable educational and vocational training institution called the Old Mountain Road School, and used her skills to galvanize support from white and African American communities, a major feat that many African-American female teachers and organizers perform…
Social Work, Marriage, and Ethnicity
This article provides a discussion about marriage with regard to social work policy and practice with cultural groups that experience life differently from predominantly White America. Marriage is influenced by culture, tradition, and economic reality supporting or hindering the success of marriages. Often, parenting is influenced by marriage, as roles are shared and meted through the resources provided by marriage. As an introduction, this artic…
A change has come
Given the historical nature of the Obama presidency, this paper qualitatively examines whether black men and women believe the Obamas can change low marriage rates among blacks in America. By using a marital–political–cultural change framework as our foundation, this exploratory study examined the written responses of 17 blacks between the ages of 23 and 61 years to two questions. (1) “Do you believe that President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama…
What works in foster care
Pecora, Peter J., et al. (2010). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 311 pp., $55.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 978019517591. The American foster care system has become an enduring feature in the lives
Ideological Schisms about HIV/Aids Helping Systems in the African American Community, With an Emphasis on Women
This article is an initial exploration about the impact of ideological beliefs on helping services in the African American community. Newly infected HIV/AIDS cases place African Americans at 45% of such new cases, with African American women becoming infected at a rate 18 times that of Whites. Yet, helping services that are organic to African American women should be stronger through a discussion of cultural beliefs held in the community, where t…
Ethics & Aids in Africa
Maggie Lena Walker and African American Community Development
One of the unsung heroines of the African American tradition of community development is Maggie Lena Walker. Walker was the first woman in the United States to establish a bank that still exists today. She also started a merchandise department store, operated a newspaper, and was a prominent leader in a major African American mutual aid organization—the Independent Order of St. Luke. This article discusses Walker’s community development contribut…
The significance of African-centered social work for social work practice
In order to respond to concomitant factors that impact members of the extensive African Diasporic community, African-centered theory/Afrocentricity warrants elevation in the social work literature and scientific inquiry. In preparing for this special journal issue, the editors recognized the dearth of scholarship advancing this critical perspective in social work. This special issue provides information on both philosophical and conceptual thinki…
Posttraumatic Slave Syndrome, the Patriarchal Nuclear Family Structure, and African American Male–Female Relationships
African American marriages and relationships have strived to model the white patriarchal nuclear family model, but the experiences of slavery and contemporary structural racism have prevented the attainment of this model. Posttraumatic slave syndrome offers a framework that allows social workers to place African American experiences within a trauma-informed perspective and think about their implication for trauma-specific interventions. This arti…
Maggie Lena Walker and African American Community Development
One of the unsung heroines of the African American tradition of community development is Maggie Lena Walker. Walker was the first woman in the United States to establish a bank that still exists today. She also started a merchandise department store, operated a newspaper, and was a prominent leader in a major African American mutual aid organization—the Independent Order of St. Luke. This article discusses Walker’s community development contribut…
Community practice and the Afrocentric paradigm
Community practice was developed by social reformers after Black people created communities after enslavement. Given America's apartheid system of segregation, Black social leaders, also referred to as social reformers, were creating institutions and systems that not only attended to human needs but also affirmed culture, family, and traditions. As the Afrocentric perspective reinterpreted African philosophy, socioeconomic/political realities, an…
African philosophy
Social work is an applied science of the best approaches and practices to populations that have been systemically dispossessed of themselves, their humanity, and the philosophical constructs that reflect their psychological and cultural processes. There is a fundamental need for social workers to learn the importance of philosophy in theory and practice, so that interventions are based out of relevant frameworks in a people’s long history. Africa…
Social Work, Marriage, and Ethnicity
This article provides a discussion about marriage with regard to social work policy and practice with cultural groups that experience life differently from predominantly White America. Marriage is influenced by culture, tradition, and economic reality supporting or hindering the success of marriages. Often, parenting is influenced by marriage, as roles are shared and meted through the resources provided by marriage. As an introduction, this artic…
A change has come
Given the historical nature of the Obama presidency, this paper qualitatively examines whether black men and women believe the Obamas can change low marriage rates among blacks in America. By using a marital–political–cultural change framework as our foundation, this exploratory study examined the written responses of 17 blacks between the ages of 23 and 61 years to two questions. (1) “Do you believe that President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama…
Ideological Schisms about HIV/Aids Helping Systems in the African American Community, With an Emphasis on Women
This article is an initial exploration about the impact of ideological beliefs on helping services in the African American community. Newly infected HIV/AIDS cases place African Americans at 45% of such new cases, with African American women becoming infected at a rate 18 times that of Whites. Yet, helping services that are organic to African American women should be stronger through a discussion of cultural beliefs held in the community, where t…
Maggie Lena Walker and African American Community Development
One of the unsung heroines of the African American tradition of community development is Maggie Lena Walker. Walker was the first woman in the United States to establish a bank that still exists today. She also started a merchandise department store, operated a newspaper, and was a prominent leader in a major African American mutual aid organization—the Independent Order of St. Luke. This article discusses Walker’s community development contribut…
Ethics & Aids in Africa
Ideological Schisms about HIV/Aids Helping Systems in the African American Community, With an Emphasis on Women
This article is an initial exploration about the impact of ideological beliefs on helping services in the African American community. Newly infected HIV/AIDS cases place African Americans at 45% of such new cases, with African American women becoming infected at a rate 18 times that of Whites. Yet, helping services that are organic to African American women should be stronger through a discussion of cultural beliefs held in the community, where t…
What works in foster care
Pecora, Peter J., et al. (2010). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 311 pp., $55.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 978019517591. The American foster care system has become an enduring feature in the lives
A change has come
Given the historical nature of the Obama presidency, this paper qualitatively examines whether black men and women believe the Obamas can change low marriage rates among blacks in America. By using a marital–political–cultural change framework as our foundation, this exploratory study examined the written responses of 17 blacks between the ages of 23 and 61 years to two questions. (1) “Do you believe that President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama…
A Historical Account of Community Mobilization in Public Education in Early Twentieth-Century African America
Miss Virginia Randolph was a historic pioneer in teaching and community mobilizing for African American children and community in early twentieth-century Henrico County, Virginia. She created a viable educational and vocational training institution called the Old Mountain Road School, and used her skills to galvanize support from white and African American communities, a major feat that many African-American female teachers and organizers perform…
Social Work, Marriage, and Ethnicity
This article provides a discussion about marriage with regard to social work policy and practice with cultural groups that experience life differently from predominantly White America. Marriage is influenced by culture, tradition, and economic reality supporting or hindering the success of marriages. Often, parenting is influenced by marriage, as roles are shared and meted through the resources provided by marriage. As an introduction, this artic…
Vivian Carter Mason and Interracial Cooperation During the Massive Resistance Era in Virginia
Vivian Carter Mason successfully utilized her social work skills during the Massive Resistance Era in Virginia. Through organizational strategies with black and white women, her leadership was indispensable, as a social worker who focused on human and civil rights. Her skills were not merely a substructure of the civil rights movement, rather her work provided a major dimension of women’s leadership through the creation of the Women’s Council for…
The significance of African-centered social work for social work practice
In order to respond to concomitant factors that impact members of the extensive African Diasporic community, African-centered theory/Afrocentricity warrants elevation in the social work literature and scientific inquiry. In preparing for this special journal issue, the editors recognized the dearth of scholarship advancing this critical perspective in social work. This special issue provides information on both philosophical and conceptual thinki…
Community practice and the Afrocentric paradigm
Community practice was developed by social reformers after Black people created communities after enslavement. Given America's apartheid system of segregation, Black social leaders, also referred to as social reformers, were creating institutions and systems that not only attended to human needs but also affirmed culture, family, and traditions. As the Afrocentric perspective reinterpreted African philosophy, socioeconomic/political realities, an…
African philosophy
Social work is an applied science of the best approaches and practices to populations that have been systemically dispossessed of themselves, their humanity, and the philosophical constructs that reflect their psychological and cultural processes. There is a fundamental need for social workers to learn the importance of philosophy in theory and practice, so that interventions are based out of relevant frameworks in a people’s long history. Africa…
Posttraumatic Slave Syndrome, the Patriarchal Nuclear Family Structure, and African American Male–Female Relationships
African American marriages and relationships have strived to model the white patriarchal nuclear family model, but the experiences of slavery and contemporary structural racism have prevented the attainment of this model. Posttraumatic slave syndrome offers a framework that allows social workers to place African American experiences within a trauma-informed perspective and think about their implication for trauma-specific interventions. This arti…
Lessons Learned from the CSWE Task Force to Advance Anti-Racism in the Social Work Education Policy and Accreditation Standards
On May 25, 2020, Mr. George Floyd, a Black man, was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a White police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In response to this disgusting display of police brutality, thousands of people all over the world began protesting Mr. Floyd's killing. The Capital of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia, became one of many flashpoints for the public's rage against white supremacy and systemic racism as thousands of people flooded the …
A Seat at the Table
Outsider Preservation
ContentsIntroduction: What is Outsider Preservation?Andrea RobertsPlacekeeping Amid Racialized Disinvestment: The Klondike Memory ProjectMargaret Haltom and Randall GarrettOutsider Archiving: Every
Examining the Political Opportunity Structure Through a Case Study of Willie Dell, African American City Councilwoman
Data regarding the involvement of trained African American women social workers in the political arena is typically found among those who occupy positions at the national level in the United States Congress. However, African American women have been engaged with their localities to effectuate change for decades, as Willie Jones Dell broke a barrier in the city of Richmond, Virginia in 1973, becoming the first African American woman on City Counci…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (6 works) · Social Work (6 works) · African american (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)