Racial Trauma
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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
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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.
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Racial Battle Fatigue (RBF) was a term coined in 2008 by Critical Race Theorist William Smith.
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Good information on how to cope with racial trauma and racial battle fatigue.
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A new framework identifies racial harms and other forms of discrimination in order to create work environments where everyone feels they belong.