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interaction between those of differentraces ,cultures , orgenders that can beinterpreted as non-physicalaggression .
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When immigration policies start to verge on subtle minimizing (a term called microaggression [8] has been used), the country really needs to take a deeper look at what we want for our own power.
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The phenomenon of racial microaggression has been identified to pinpoint these assumptions, although this theory is either groundbreaking psychology or another urban myth (ala the holiday-suicide rate), depending on whom you talk to.
Daniel Cubias: "Witnesses Described Him as Brown": The Racial Insecurity of Watching the News 2009
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Daniel Cubias: "Witnesses Described Him as Brown": The Racial Insecurity of Watching the News 2009
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Daniel Cubias: "Witnesses Described Him as Brown": The Racial Insecurity of Watching the News 2009
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Back in 2006 – when the generation gap was pronounced deceased by New York magazine (and a year before Jonah from Tonga was shown on Australian television to an accepting public) – words associated with this movement such as no-platforming, the use of “a violence” as a verb, and woke as an adjective, microaggression, and cisgender heterosexual either did not exist, or had not entered the mainstream.
The generation gap is back – but not as we know it | Brigid Delaney Brigid Delaney 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word microaggression
https://reason.com/blog/2015/12/14/emory-students-want-professors-evaluated
December 14, 2015
TankHughes commented on the word microaggression
On this episode of Poetry Off the Shelf, Saaed Jones compares these to paper cuts: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/audioitem/5428
Not deadly enough to go to the ER about, and no one wants to hear about them, but they can sting for days and they add up.
December 14, 2015
bilby commented on the word microaggression
First time I've come across it.
*microwince*
December 15, 2015
bilby commented on the word microaggression
Wait. Do we have a micro- list?
December 15, 2015
vendingmachine commented on the word microaggression
Last night I heard Dr. Drew Pinksy mention microaggressions on his show.
December 15, 2015
vendingmachine commented on the word microaggression
Although there are many concerns that broadly affect Black people in medicine, such as institutional racism and inequality of educational opportunities, the experiences of Black interviewees in particular remain underaddressed. Being interviewed while Black involves a collision of microaggressions and feelings and experiences related to stereotype threat, tokenism, imposter syndrome, and homophily (see table). Many of these experiences are rooted in unconscious bias, whereas some can be born from overt racism. In turn, Black interviewees collect impressions that make them doubt that they will be welcomed and valued in medicine.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2023999?query=race_and_medicine
November 14, 2020