Delivered to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Conference, New Orleans, LA. 8.25.22 I am pleased and honored to be here today to share with you my work on racial distress as emotional harm and as factors for mitigation. Over the last several decades I have...
NACDL'S 24TH ANNUAL MAKING THE CASE FOR LIFE: INVESTIGATION, VOIR DIRE, AND MITIGATION IN CAPITAL CASES Program Summary: Make the case...
The New York Association of Black Psychologists (NYABPsi), in collaboration with the New Jersey (NJABPsi), DC (DCABPsi) and Delaware Valley (DVABPsi) chapters, is celebrating Black History Month by highlighting and honoring the pioneers of Black and African Psychology. We proudly recognize the contributions of Black psychological...
Recently Dr. Carter appeared on the youtube channel Community Technical Assistance Center (CTAC) - ...
Recently Dr. Carter appeared on the podcast SkinDeep a part of EmpowHer New York -- List below to Part 1 on this interview About Skin Deep Inspired by a true story, SKINDEEP is contextualized in the long arc of racism throughout US history, by utilizing news stories...
Recently Dr. Carter was featured in the Columbia University Annual Report. Below is an excerpt of that article. Even as statues come down and institutions are renamed, discrimination, harassment, and violence against people of color remain stark and pervasive realities. More than 80 percent of all...
We, Tom Scheuermann and Robert T. Carter, espoused a skeptical view about the state of race relations three years ago in our 2012 law review article on race-based traumatic stress in the workplace (webpage publications). We documented that while racial harassment and discrimination in the...
Racism and its Psychological Consequences: Race-Based Traumatic Stress Injury Research in the area of racial harassment and racial discrimination demonstrates that harm can result in debilitating stress for people who have racial encounters that are memorable, out of their control, sudden, and are deeply emotionally painful...
“Carter and Pieterse increase our understanding of and the treatability of traumatic stress that results from racism. The proposals proffered in Measuring the Effects of Racism will lead to better treatment methods of race-based trauma and increase the evidence base for advocacy and agendas for...
The United States has passed six Civil Rights Acts (in 1866 and 1964) and created three Constitutional Amendments (the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth) in the name of creating a more just and egalitarian society. Yet today, more than 80 percent of all cases in which...