Dr. Alex Pieterse : Racism in academia

Dr. Alex L. Pieterse, anti-racism educator and Associate Professor at Boston College shares his story of racial trauma in academia.
Check out Dr. Pieterse's co-authored book Measuring the Effects of Racism: Guidelines for the Assessment and Treatment of Race-Based Traumatic Stress Injury (Carter & Pieterse, 2020) available through Columbia University Press.
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Resisting, surviving, healing from, and coping with racism through storytelling.
Racism has been and continues to be a pressing social issue that threatens the mental , academic, vocational, economic, social, and physical health and safety of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC).
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