Racial Trauma

Racial trauma, or race-based traumatic stress (RBTS), refers to the mental and emotional injury caused by encounters with racial bias and ethnic discrimination, racism, and hate crimes

Race-based trauma or race-based stress is the trauma one experiences via encounters of racial bias, ethnic discrimination, racism, and hate crimes that negatively impacts all aspects of one’s well-being.

Racial Battle Fatigue (RBF) was a term coined in 2008 by Critical Race Theorist William Smith.

Good information on how to cope with racial trauma and racial battle fatigue. 

A new framework identifies racial harms and other forms of discrimination in order to create work environments where everyone feels they belong.