Our team developed an intervention that was shown to reduce commission of microaggressions in White students and increase ethnic identity in Black students.
Learn about a new categorization system for racial microaggressions based on a review of the literature.
Learn about the experiences of Black students on college campuses based on our focus group research at three different universities, and new research focused on students at uOttawa.
Microaggressions have been assumed to be innocent and unconscious, but a nationwide study shows they are a form of aggression.
Racial microaggressions have been documented to occur with some regularity across many Western nations.
Microaggressions are not simply cultural missteps or racial faux pas, but a form of oppression designed to reinforce the traditional power differential between groups, whether or not this was the conscious intention of the offender. As such, there is an underlying connection between the message embedded in the microaggression and its relationship to pathological stereotypes about the target that support existing power structures.