Research Guides: Antiracism Resources: Employees: Microaggressions

Links and Websites

What is a microaggression?

A comment or action that subtly and often unconsciously or unintentionally expresses a prejudiced attitude toward a member of a marginalized group (such as a racial minority)

~ From Merriam Webster Dictionary

Addressing Implicit Bias and Microaggressions
From the Run the List podcast.
Confronting Prejudice: How to Protect Yourself and Help Others
From Pepperdine University's Graduate School of Education and Psychology
Did you really just say that?
From APA: Advice on how to confront microaggressions, whether you're a target, bystander or perpetrator
How to Respond to Microaggressions
From the New York Times
Microaggressions Are A Big Deal: How To Talk Them Out And When To Walk Away
NPR Lifekit, June 2020
Microaggressions Are A Big Deal: How To Talk Them Out And When To Walk Away
From NPR's video collection.
Microaggressions in the Classroom
Discussion of microaggression with college students. Directed by Carla LynDale Carter, Lecturer at the University of North Texas in the Department of Media Arts. Yolanda Flores Niemann is Professor of Psychology at the University of North Texas (UNT).
MicroAggressions in the Classroom
How to recognize, address, and prevent microaggressions in the classroom. Developed by the Univ. of Denver
Microaggressions with Dr. Holly Sawyer: Black Leaders Matter Series Part 5
From the Black Leaders Matter series on the Practice of the Practice website.
Racism Hides Behind The Small Things People Say And Do
Psychology Today, 2017
What to Know About Microaggressions
From the Health Matters Newsletter by the New York-Presbyterian
When and How to Respond to Microaggressions
By Ella F. Washington, Alison Hall Birch, and Laura Morgan Roberts
July 03, 2020: From Harvard Business Review

Addressing Microaggressions

Articles and documents:

Addressing Racist Microaggressions, by Macy Wilson, January 6, 2017: Inside Higher Ed
The 360-Degree Experience of Workplace Microaggressions: Who Commits Them? How Do IndividualsRespond? What Are the Consequences?: Influence and Implications by Jennifer Young-Jin Kim, Duoc Nguyen, Caryn J. Block, September 2018: ResearchGate.
Microaggressions in the classroom: Making the invisible, visible by Caroline Toscano, May 4, 2015: UnMinnTILT
Under Our Skin: What do we mean when we talk about race? Seattle Times - Multimedia Project

Handouts:

Microaggression responses
Strategies with scripts for disrupting observed or experienced microaggressions.
Microaggressions: Recognizing them and the message.
A handout grouping microaggressions by theme, example, and the implicit message each sends.

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Antiracism Resources: Employees

Links and Websites

What is a microaggression?

A comment or action that subtly and often unconsciously or unintentionally expresses a prejudiced attitude toward a member of a marginalized group (such as a racial minority)

Addressing Microaggressions

Articles and documents:

Addressing Racist Microaggressions, by Macy Wilson, January 6, 2017: Inside Higher Ed

The 360-Degree Experience of Workplace Microaggressions: Who Commits Them? How Do IndividualsRespond? What Are the Consequences?: Influence and Implications by Jennifer Young-Jin Kim, Duoc Nguyen, Caryn J. Block, September 2018: ResearchGate.

Handouts:

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