Racially just, trauma-informed care for black students
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Anti-blackness precludes Black people from being viewed as rights-bearing individuals and justifies the degradation of Black people, Black history, and Black culture. In this conceptual article, we suggest that (1) anti-blackness is trauma-inducing, (2) schools are often the first sites where Black students encounter anti-blackness and subsequent trauma, (3) anti-black racial trauma deleteriously affects Black youth's holistic wellbeing. Moreover, we contend that schools’ writ-large and teacher education programs can play an important role in providing the knowledge, resources, and dispositions needed to train teachers to recognize the persistence of anti-blackness and play a pivotal role in ameliorating it.
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Schools and correctional facilities frequently serve as traumatic environments for young Black males.
“Given that schools and correctional facilities frequently serve as traumatic environments for young Black males (Glynn, 2014;McAdoo et al., 2025), it is essential to implement non-punitive policies and practices in public schools that promote academic achievement and psychological well-being (Pace, 2017).”
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Lea, C. H., Salazar, M. E., Huerta, A. H., Sardesai, T., & Edwards, K. T. (2025) · Theory Into Practice · doi:10.1080/00405841.2025.2503301 · Cited by 9 · see citing works
Lea, C. H., Sardesai, T., Edwards, K. T., Andrade, G. M., & Kim, B.-K. E. (2026) · Education Sciences · doi:10.3390/educsci16040653
- Authors
- McAdoo, G., Williams, K., & Howard, T. C.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Corresponding author
- McAdoo, Gene
- Venue
- Urban Education
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2023-06-21
- Volume
- 60
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 672-699
- ISSN
- 0042-0859 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-8340
- OpenAlex
- W4381510967
- Cited by
- 32
- References
- 7
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 2
- FWCI
- 13.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Urban Education (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Critical Race Theory in Education
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Social Sciences › Education › Education Discipline and Inequality
- Keywords
- anti-Blackness, racial trauma, Black students, trauma-informed care, racial justice, teacher professional development, school climate, student well-being, anti-racist education
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