microagression
📖 Definitions
"brief, commonplace, and daily verbal, behavioral, and environmental slights and indignities directed toward Black Americans, often automatically and unintentionally" (Sue, Capodilupo, and Holder 2008, 329).
💡 Examples
- "A conversation about race in the United States where the given audience demonstrates racial microaggressions against an African American speaker would be, for example, an instance in which an audience demonstrates testimonial incompetence with respect to potential testimonial content concerning corresponding topics on race" (Dotson 2011, 246).
🔗 Relations
- produces: testimonial injustice
- produces: hermeneutical marginalization
📚 References
- Sue, Derald Wing, Chrstina M. Capodilupo, and Aisha M.B. Holder. 2008. "Racial microaggressions in the life experience of black Americans." Professional Psychology: Research and Practice 39 (3): 329–36. https://doi.org/10.1037/0735-7028.39.3.329
- Dotson, Kristie. 2011. “Tracking Epistemic Violence, Tracking Practices of Silencing.” Hypatia 26 (2): 236–57. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01177.x.