From colorblind to systemic racism: Emergence of a rhetorical shift in higher education discourse in response to the murder of George Floyd

• Noor Toraif ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ NT and NG are joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliation School of Social Work, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Neha Gondal ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gondal@bu.edu

  ¶‡ NT and NG are joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Sociology and Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7337-9072

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• Pujan Paudel,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Alison Frisella

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Lesley University, Social Sciences Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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