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The utterances shared above are racial microaggressions—insults that occur automatically and that are often unintentional. They happen on a daily basis and maintain a worldview of White supremacy (Sue, Capodilupo, & Holder, 2008). As a White female doctoral student in a psychology graduate program, my role in this research study, conducted on campus, was to deliver racial microaggressions to Black female college students at a Predominantly White Institution (PWI) in an effort to examine their cognitive consequences.
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Rohan, A. (2015). “Micro(Act)Gressions”. In: Hartlep, N.D., Hensley, B.O. (eds) Critical Storytelling in Uncritical Times. Constructing Knowledge: Curriculum Studies in Action. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-256-1_3
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