Subtle Acts of Exclusion

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1   Pierce, C. M. (1974). Psychiatric problems of the Black minority. In S. Arieti (Ed.), American handbook of psychiatry (pp. 512–523). New York, NY: Basic Books.

2   A “trigger warning” is a heads-up that is given (usually to students) about material they are going to see, read, or discuss, that might trigger strong negative or upsetting reactions. It allows people to prepare themselves emotionally or to even remove themselves from the situation. For example, if students are assigned a book that describes a sexual assault, a professor may give a trigger warning, and if someone has experienced trauma from a sexual assault themselves, this might help them better emotionally navigate the assignment. Trigger warnings are not directly ...