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Responding To Campus Bias And Hate: A Proactive Way To Protect Marginalized Students From Race-Based Trauma, Lezlie Blair

West Chester University Master’s Theses

Abstract

Marginalized students face silent battles of racial discrimination and injustice every day that go often go unnoticed. These various experiences and encounters have the potential to lead to severe traumatic reactions that can negatively impact a student’s college experience. My thematic concern examines the problem of hate speech and unconscious biases on college and university campuses and its influence on race-based trauma experienced by students of color. I will also address the ways in which colleges and universities can proactively support and protect racially marginalized students from these occurrences and the potential trauma that can come with them. In …