Books in Fitzgerald Library
Microaggressions and Traumatic Stress by Call Number: Lower Level 155.937 N12ISBN: 9781433828591Publication Date: 2018-01-01This text distills the latest research to discuss the relationship between microaggressions and stress, looking at how regular exposure to subtle discrimination can, over time, elicit the same symptoms as severe trauma.
Microaggressions in Ministry by Call Number: Lower Level 253.08 S21ISBN: 9780664260576Publication Date: 2015-11-17This volume looks specifically at microaggressions directed at race, gender, and sexuality in the church in order to help readers become more aware of these subtle communications, offering guidance for grappling with this issue
So You Want to Talk about Race by Call Number: Lower Level 305.8 O52ISBN: 9781580056779Publication Date: 2018-01-16In this book, the author offers a clarifying discussion of the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on the issues that divide us. Includes a chapter specifically on microaggressions.
Academic Articles
- Disarming Racial Microaggressions: Microintervention Strategies for Targets, White Allies, and BystandersThis article introduces a new strategic framework developed for addressing microaggressions that moves beyond coping and survival to concrete action steps and dialogues that targets, allies, and bystanders can perform (microinterventions).
- Microaggression experiences of different marginalized identitiesGiven the nascent stage of research on microaggressions, the study is an attempt to better understand the experience of microaggressions and examine it from the point of view of different marginalized minority identities. The purpose of this paper is to report on the subjective experience of microaggressions from the lenses of gender, race, religion and sexual orientation.
- Microaggressions in the learning environment: A systematic review.Microaggressions were prevalent and 'invisible' in colleges with minority students seemingly worn down by ongoing strategies used to confront the inherent associated stresses. Factors tending to ameliorate microaggression and psychological stress included engagement, dispositional forgiveness, help-seeking attitudes, self-efficacy in coping with daily hassles, and social connectedness.
Online Resources
What are microaggressions? This Vox explainer lays out what they are, why they hurt, and why society's talking about them now.
Examples of microaggressions. This table has some examples of common microaggressions, including common phrases that are rooted in offensive stereotypes and beliefs.
How should I respond to microaggressions? This site from the American Psychological Association (APA) has helpful advice for how to react, whether you're the target, bystander, or perpetrator. Vincenzo G. Teran, PsyD notes that, while committing a microaggression can cause real harm, it's "not indicative that we're bad people. It's more indicative of a society where the dominant world view tends to be Eurocentric, masculine, and heterosexual."