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Using interview data from American employees, this chapter examines the various ways race-based microaggressions and macroaggressions manifest in workplaces. The chapter also addresses how microaggressions and macroaggressions negatively impact targets and allies in workplaces.
I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.
—Audre Lorde
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Levchak, C.C. (2018). Microaggressions, Macroaggressions, and Modern Racism in the Workplace. In: Microaggressions and Modern Racism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70332-9_5
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