The concept of microaggression has made the rare cultural journey from academic neologism to popular hashtag. The word was coined more than four decades ago, but only in the past few years has the ...

Think everyday, interpersonal racism is a thing of the past? In progressive politics, most of the action has moved on from the Civil Rights struggles of the past to a focus on societal or “structural” ...

Editor's note: The following column first appeared on the author's blog, Res ipsa loquitur – The thing itself speaks. There is a controversy in Oregon over a proposed change in the ethics rule from ...

To the editor: I agree with Cal State Los Angeles sociologist Bradley Campbell’s logic that focusing on microaggression will make us see ourselves as victims instead of strong individuals who can ...

There are many mad and worrying things about the speech codes spreading across campuses like a contagious brain funk. There's their treatment of even everyday words as "problematic" terms of abuse.

Racism comes in many forms — and that includes the insidious microaggression. Microassaults are the more obvious and deliberate discriminatory behaviors, such a cashier purposely skipping over a Black ...

Question: My manager just pulled me aside and said if I joked with my colleague about his name again, she'd send me to HR. My manager said my actions constituted a "microaggression." What is that, and ...

DNPs offer their personal experiences on responding to microaggressions in the workplace as well as tips on achieving advancements. Microaggressions, behaviors that stem from implicit bias and occur ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. In our cover story last summer on the strengthening PC movements on ...

Telling a disabled person they are “inspiring” is a “microaggression”, an NHS trust has claimed. Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has warned doctors not to put “people in broad ...

Dr. Carl Bell was waiting his turn to check in at his hotel. A well-regarded psychiatrist and academic, he was traveling for a television appearance. The TV station had flown him first-class and sent ...

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