19 May Dr. Robert T. Carter Featured in Columbia University Annual Report
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 cases in which plaintiffs charge that they have suffered race-based harassment fail — and the vast majority are dismissed before arguments are ever heard.
But that picture may change in the years to come thanks to the publication of two books in 2020 co-authored by TC Professor Emeritus of Psychology & Education Robert T. Carter, who has devoted his career to, in his words, “changing the outcomes, not just the symbols.”
In Measuring the Effects of Racism: Guidelines for the Assessment and Treatment of Race-Based Traumatic Stress Injury (Columbia University Press 2020), Carter and TC alumnus Alex L. Pieterse (Ph.D. ’05), Associate Professor of Educational & Counseling Psychology at the University of Albany, painstakingly establish the damage racism causes to its victims. They build on “empirical evidence accumulated over several decades” to show that “people who are exposed to racism experience stress and have adverse health outcomes such as depression, anxiety and hypertension.”