#racial-trauma

#racial-trauma

Many students reported experiencing racial microaggressions in classrooms and social spaces, including being mistaken for service workers, being made to feel like outsiders, or feeling a need to suppress aspects of their racial or cultural identity to 'fit in.'

Racial trauma is not a mental disorder but an injury stemming from experiences of racism. Healing begins with acknowledgment and empowerment, rather than pathology.

From 1947 to 1974, incarcerated Black men and other vulnerable inpatient groups were exploited in research studies held at the Addiction Research Center in Kentucky.