Sorry that you had a bad experience. Can you generalize your question to be less specific to you?

Yikes! I feel like this question is clear and concerns university culture/structure. It may help you get clear answers to edit and make it more explicit how you are characterizing the kind of incident you're asking about in this question. E.g., would you say this is a situation where students disrespect and exclude another student (in a way that might have academic consequences), and that student suspects that it may be racially-motivated?

Although there are some aspects of your story that makes it worse than most, "bad group project dynamics" seems to be a pretty universal experience at the university level. A non-negligible number of people behave quite against the best interests of their groupmates. There are several other questions here where people have asked about what to do in similar circumstances.

To answer one of the questions in the comments, those two individuals would constantly accuse me of not doing enough when they themselves had the tendencies to procrastinate. I feel like they could have told the professor of the course that my contributions were not enough. Yes, I think that this incident was racially-motivated.

Do you feel comfortable talking to the course professor about this as a first step?

Yes, I would like to talk with the professor first and then later with other administrators at school.

Save the emails, save all versions of the google doc (every comment should be included in the history, so you can prove what they did) and talk to the dean of studies. These things are exactly why I think it's a stupid idea to have group work in university courses.

I have suggested a question title change to make it more descriptive - feel free to edit further as you see fit, OP.

I would leave out the racial motivation assumption (all I'm seeing so far is that they are jerks) and just show the professor the Google Docs revision history and ask for advice. It is possible that deleting the name of a team member who has made significant contributions to the writing falls under plagiarism or academic dishonesty rules.

@user90678 You are entitled to your opinion, but I see no evidence in your description of events that this was racially motivated. And any administrator/professor worth their salt won't see any, either. Lots of college students are total jerks and do bad work; your race doesn't change their poor manners and decisions. All that said, introducing race actually works against you here. Just focus on what happened and don't speculate about motives; the behavior is already egregious enough that determining their motivations is unnecessary.

@jpmc - While there might not be solid evidence in the question that this is the case, why not give them the benefit of the doubt? Since they're a lot closer to the situation, they might have picked up on social cues that we can't perceive here (for instance, maybe the students in question are mostly nice to white people, but the poster has seen them treat other minorities poorly). Alternately, there could be details they're not comfortable sharing.

@jpmc26 - “Innocent until proven guilty” is a legal principle, one that applies to a jury, not a social one, one that applies to any given individual, to my mind. Even in the court, the prosecutor, for example, does not proceed from an assumption of innocence…. Even if you disagree, that principle is not relevant here, because there is no way that an anonymous user can “prove” someone guilty in a sense that would hold up in court.

@Obie2.0 It's clearly relevant here if the OP wishes to file a formal complaint and bring about disciplinary action; even though we're not talking about a court of law, the value is still something whatever disciplinary system is involved should strive to uphold.

@user90678 You said that you think this incident was racially-motivated, can you provide any evidence that it is ? From what I've seen in your question, and comments, nothing points toward that. Everyone have had to deal with a bad group, just because this case was a little bit more extreme than most, doesn't race had anything to do with it. There's tons of factor that could play a part, and race is the least of them.

Certainly, when doing undergrad projects at my university, there is typically the option of an interview with the lecturer if certain group members did not pull their weight. That usually amounted to adjusting grades based more on individual contributions than the combined work, and reducing grades for those who did not contribute. Round up the rest of your team and approach them (after all, they have skin in the game too). You may even be able to appoint a different editor and resubmit the work.

I do not see how either the races (?) or genders of the people involved are at all relevant; no part of the question seems to relate to these facts. They only suggest (to me, at least) an attempt to distract from ones own agency in the matter. That does not change the fact that the two group members mentioned seem to be very unprofessional jerk. It is telling though that they were unaware that you would be unavailable at this very crucial moment (the day before the deadline!).

Just a reminder that the story is an example, and the premise of the question is that the OP experienced something that they suspect is motivated by bias, and yet they know that there is no solid evidence of bias. How do universities deal with such situations? Quibbling with the premise does not help.

@user90678 I edited the question to make it clearer that the story is an example, and that part of the premise is that they are not openly expressing bias. Please feel free to edit further if I mischaracterized anything.

@cactus_pardner - The edit bothers me because (a) I don't see anything explicit in the question or in OP's comments to back up such a strong statement (although I'll grant you that objective evidence is certainly not present --or omitted-- from the scenario's description); (b) whether there is solid evidence or not is sometimes difficult for someone in OP's position to evaluate; and yet, the question is still very good for someone in that situation. Was your edit an attempt to prevent closure of the question? If so, I guess that might make it a little easier for me to live with.

I'll give you an example. Remember Anita Hill? What hard evidence did she have? And yet, from her consistent descriptions given to friends and colleagues at the time, who testified to support her story, the puzzle pieces came together quite convincingly for many observers. Maybe the outcome would be different in 2018 from what it was then.

@BryanKrause - "bad group project dynamics seems to be a pretty universal experience at the university level" -- true! But... here's an analogy. Let's say a student with a hearing impairment is having difficulty hearing and understanding a lecture given in a noisy environment. Everyone in the auditorium is having trouble. The hearing-impaired student has documented his disability and clearly requested the accommodations he needs. Would you say that just because other students are also suffering the effects of the noise, this student doesn't have a valid complaint?

@aparente001 Yes, I was hoping to avoid closure, as well as avoid people getting derailed by asking for evidence. I think it's crucial to identify what "this kind of situation" is. I can now see how my edit minimizes OP's own testimony as evidence; another possible edit would say "does not have evidence beyond her own testimony/experience." I was editing to make sure the question was clear enough to keep open; I was worried about putting words in OP's mouth, but I had not even thought about my phrasing being dismissive.

@arp - "I would leave out the racial motivation assumption" -- I don't think you have a full enough picture to be able to provide this specific advice. I can imagine situations where it might be very good advice. I can also imagine a situation where a university would be glad to receive feedback about even subtle racism/sexism, and I can even more easily imagine diversity staff working directly with a student who's experienced subtle bias to improve her knowledge of what the university has to offer in the way of support. A university that is truly supporting diversity will want to keep...

... its ear to the ground so as to improve its diversity workshops, pedagogical techniques, etc.

Let us continue this discussion in chat.

@aparente001 Sorry, I did not intend in my comment to dismiss the OP's problem, which is serious and frustrating, but rather to comment on this being their first experience with a similar issue at this point in their education (which I think makes the OP either surprisingly lucky or simply did not have many courses with group work), and to point out that there are many other questions on this site with similar topics.

@BryanKrause - good idea. I added a tag about groups.