Bandwidth recovery: helping students reclaim cognitive resources lost to poverty, racism, and social marginalization

1. The costs of racism, poverty, and social marginalization. Physical health

Mental health

Human capacity

Loss of cognitive resources and bandwidth (scarcity). 2. Sociopsychological underminers. Microaggressions and "modern racism"

Stereotype threat

Disidentification with academic self

Belongingness uncertainty

Focus on LGBT students. 3. Interventions that mitigate the negative effects of poverty and the underminers. Growth mind-set

Belonging

Decreasing stereotype threat and identity threat

Institutional structures and processes

Case study (Georgia State University).