Introduction -- Just what are microaggressions? -- Why microaggressions matter -- The soft bigotry of low expectations -- Shopping while black (or brown) -- Celebrities and microaggressions -- Protecting yourself -- Chapter notes -- Glossary -- Further reading -- Index
Abstract This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, "Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies," revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; others describe a term of art from another discipline or interdisciplinary area and show how it might relate to transgender studies. While far from providing a complete picture of the field, these keywords begin to elucidate a conceptual vocabulary for transgender studies. Some of the submissions offer a deep and resilient resistance to the entire project of mapping the field terminologically; some reveal yet-unrealized critical potentials for the field; some take existing terms from canonical thinkers and develop the significance for transgender studies; some offer overviews of well-known methodologies and demonstrate their applicability within transgender studies; some suggest how transgender issues play out in various fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines.
Microaggressions in Medicine introduces a novel account of microaggressions and applies it in medical contexts. Guided by diverse patient testimonies and case studies, it focuses on harms experienced by patients marginalized on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, body size, and disability. It makes a compelling case that the harms of microaggressions are anything but micro and argues that healthcare professionals have a moral obligation to prevent them. By proving practical strategies for healthcare professionals to reduce microaggressions in their practices, Microaggressions in Medicine will make a positive difference in the lives of marginalized patients as they interact with healthcare professionals. All patients deserve high quality, patient-centered care, but healthcare professionals must change their practices in order to achieve such equity.
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Breaking down the word -- Aimed at certain groups -- Racial prejudice -- Prejudice against LGBTQ+ people -- Prejudice against disabled people -- Prejudice against women -- Why do microaggressions hurt? -- Listening and learning -- How to handle microaggressions -- Glossary -- For more information (Books, Websites) -- Index.
"This is one of the first books to offer a comprehensive philosophical treatment of microaggressions. Its aims are to provide an intersectional analysis of microaggressions that cuts across multiple groups and dimensions of oppression and marginalization, and to engage a variety of perspectives that have been sidelined within the discipline of philosophy. The volume gathers a diverse group of contributors: philosophers of color, philosophers with disabilities, philosophers of various nationalities and ethnicities, and philosophers of several genders and gender identities. Their unique frames of analysis articulate both how the concept of microaggressions can be used to clarify and sharpen our understanding of subtler aspects of oppression and how analysis, expansion, and reconceiving the notion of a microaggression can deepen and extend its explanatory power. The essays in the volume are divided into four thematic parts. The essays in Part I seek to defend microaggressions from common critiques and to explain their impact beyond the context of college students. In Part II the contributors set forth a framework for legitimizing microaggressions research that takes into account issues of measurement, scale, and replication. Part III explores the harms of microaggressions. The chapters show how small slights can accumulate to produce significant harm at the macro level, demonstrate how microaggressions contribute to epistemic harm, and establish novel understandings of racial and accent-triggered microaggressions. Finally, Part IV addresses issues of disability and ableism within the context of microaggressions. It includes commentary on transgender athletes, disciplinary techniques for bodily nonconformity, ableist exceptionalism, and deafness. Microaggressions and Philosophy features cutting-edge research on an important topic that will appeal to a wide range of students and scholars across disciplines. It includes perspectives from philosophy of psychology, empirically informed philosophy, feminist philosophy, critical race theory, disability theory, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, and social and political philosophy"--
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Little things, big harms -- Inarticulate bloviating -- Microaggression skepticism -- A plea to conflict-averse egalitarians -- 1 Microaggression basics -- Chester Pierce and the ways of aggression -- Microaggression gets a little bigger -- Modern microaggression research -- Frequently Asked Questions -- Now for the details -- 2 All in the eye of the beholder? -- Motivations and doubts -- Varieties of microaggression skepticism -- Whose viewpoint counts (more)? -- Ask an expert -- The problem of tragic coincidences -- The Ambiguous Experience Account of microaggression -- The trauma of ambiguity -- Unsettling accounts -- 3 Collective harm and individual blame -- The machinery of oppression -- The Structural Account of microaggression -- Bad environments -- Mass torture, the harmless way -- Redwood furniture -- Double-barreled collective harm -- Blame and luck -- 4 Agency problems: Ignorance and lack of control -- Showing off your catapult -- Elusive ignorance -- Updating the subpersonal -- Sneaky subroutines of oppression -- The mindless epidemiology of prejudice -- Drunk on stereotypes -- Moral agency gets out of control -- Provisional conclusions: It's complicated -- 5 Proleptic blame -- How to greet party guests -- Blame for lab rats -- The strains of involvement -- Shame, shame, shame -- Proleptic blame -- From theory to practice -- 6 How to do better -- Remote control -- Pseudoproblems: Brainwashing and censorship -- Mental tire rotation -- Institutional solutions for collective harm -- Safe space -- Reparative renaming -- The anti-oppression chore wheel -- 7 Uptake failure and dismissal -- Uptake failures -- Victimhood narratives and coddling panic -- Bystanders, allies, and risks -- The paradox of proleptic blame -- 8 Skillful blame and social media chaos.
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Microaggressions are subtle verbal and non-verbal slights based on group membership, and they are ubiquitous in the lives of racial minorities, women, and LGBTQ individuals. The goal of the current paper is to introduce a role-playing based exercise on effective responses to microaggressions. The workshop draws on two previous prejudice responding workshops but integrates research-based strategies.
Verbal microaggressions perpetuate inequalities and negatively impact wellbeing. Yet, there is little work on microaggressions in situ. We address this gap, connecting microaggressions research with scholarship concerning prejudice and discrimination in situated interaction, and focusing on (hetero)sexist microaggressions. Conversation analysis (CA) and membership categorisation analysis (MCA) are applied to excerpts of naturally-occurring and focus group conversation to determine what (hetero)sexist microaggressions look like in practice; how they affect conversations; and whether they map onto well-documented CA/MCA phenomena. Findings suggest that when people produce microaggressive utterances, they use various devices (e.g. pre-sequences, idioms, humour) to mitigate accountability. Furthermore, concerning recipients' reactions, the treatment of an utterance as microaggressive can involve hallmarks of dispreferred turns including hesitation and/or indirect challenges involving deletion/repair initiation. We therefore propose that such features are criteria for an utterance/sequence to be considered microaggressive. Moreover, such strategies suggest that speakers/recipients are agentic in the (re)production of (hetero)sexism, and therefore may be agentic in effecting change.
Intro -- Microaggression Theory -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editors -- About the Authors -- Part I Microaggression Theory -- 1 Everything You Wanted to Know About Microaggressions but Didn't Get a Chance to Ask -- Defining Microaggressions -- Myths About Microaggressions -- Impact of Microaggressions -- Intervention and Prevention -- 2 Aversive Racism, Implicit Bias, and Microaggressions -- Aversive Racism and Implicit Bias -- Aversive Racism, Implicit Bias, and Interracial Interaction -- Health and Healthcare Interactions -- Aversive Racism, Implicit Bias, and Microaggressions: Integration -- Future Directions in Research on Subtle Bias and Microaggressions -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Multidimensional Models of Microaggressions and Microaffirmations -- Introduction -- Multidimensional Perspectives on Racism -- Multidimensional Model of Racism (MMR) -- Critical Race Theory (CRT) -- Psychological CRT -- Counterstories of Microaggressions and Microaffirmations -- The Tell It Like It Is Project -- Conclusions and Implications -- References -- 4 Intersectionality Theory and Microaggressions: Implications for Research, Teaching, and Practice -- Herstory of Intersectionality Theory -- Intersectional Approaches in Psychology -- Intersections of Race and Gender Microaggressions -- Intersections of Race and Sexual Orientation Microaggressions -- Intersections of Race and Social Class Microaggressions -- Intersections of Race and Religious Microaggressions -- Summary -- Recommendations for Research, Teaching, and Clinical Practice -- Intersectional Microaggressions and Future Research -- Intersectional Microaggressions and Teaching -- Intersectional Microaggressions in Therapy -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Detrimental Impact of Microaggressions -- 5 Microaggressions: Clinical Impact and Psychological Harm
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Racial discrimination is a matter of public health and social justice and an issue that lies at the very heart of the social work profession. Modern forms of racial discrimination are frequently hidden, subtle, and unintended. This type of discrimination, described by the construct of racial microaggression, poses significant challenges to social work practitioners, educators, and researchers striving to promote justice and equality. The construct, however, also offers a powerful tool for understanding and intervening in discrimination. This paper defines and traces recent developments related to the concept of racial microaggression and discusses how acts of microaggression perpetuate prejudice and oppression. The tenets of Critical Race Theory, in which the construct of microaggression is grounded, is presented with a discussion for why postracial discourse may be counterproductive toward efforts aimed at deconstructing and eliminating racism. The paper concludes with specific recommendations for how the social work profession can integrate knowledge about microaggression into practice, policy, education, research, and intervention in a way that avoids potential pitfalls associated with addressing this sensitive issue.
In this article, we argue that the concept of racial microaggression is a white supremacy construct that is an ideological and discursive anti‐Black practice. We discuss how microaggressions' reduction of historical and hegemonic white supremacy to everyday relations that are merely performative, not integral to sustaining such larger forces, is an analytical shortcoming. We contend that without the adequate heft of historical white supremacy as a part of capitalist and colonial expansion, genocide, and Indigenous erasure, microaggression scholars will remain enthralled with the idea that individual behavior changes can eradicate anti‐Black violence.