21 Racial Microaggressions You Hear On A Daily Basis“A photographer at Fordham asked her peers to wr

21 Racial Microaggressions You Hear On A Daily Basis“A photographer at Fordham asked her peers to write down the microaggressions they’ve encountered. Here is what they had to say.Photographer Kiyun asked her friends at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus to “write down an instance of racial microaggression they have faced.”The term “microaggression” was used by Columbia professor Derald Sue to refer to “brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of color.” Sue borrowed the term from psychiatrist Dr. Chester Pierce who coined the term in the ’70s.While the term “microaggressions” has been a part of academic discourse for some time (“micro-inequities” was coined by an MIT Ph.D. in 1973), it became better known through the popular Tumblr Microaggressions.The Tumblr is a project that aims to highlight the daily microaggressions people encounter through user submitted stories.Read the full piece and see more photos herePEOPLE, SERIOUSLY - IT’S 2015 NOT 1950, GET A CLUE. RACISM AIN’T CUTE.  -- source link

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