How Microaggressions Deleteriously Impact Students’ Classroom Experiences, Academic Growth – and Happiness.

Learn more about microaggressions, and impacts on students and colleagues, in the following video clips and journal article. A list of additional readings is also available, below.

YouTube @Detroit Public TV / YouTube @National Book Foundation

CITATIONS:

1. Allen, Ayana, Lakia M. Scott, and Chance W. Lewis. “Racial Microaggressions and African American and Hispanic Students in Urban Schools: A Call for Culturally Affirming Education.” Interdisciplinary Journal of Teaching and Learning 3, no. 2 (2013): 117–29. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1063228.pdf.

2. Rankin. Claudia. “Claudia Rankine on Citizen: An American Lyric - 2015 L.A. Times Festival of Books.” YouTube. Detroit Public TV. May 18, 2015. Accessed July 21, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upCFbREUvtk.

3. Rankin. Claudia. “Claudia Rankine reads from Citizen at 2014 NBA Finalists Reading.” YouTube. National Book Foundation. Dec 1, 2014. Accessed July 21, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_WYBZ_qThw.

ADDITIONAL READINGS:

  1. Bui, Tuyen Trisa, Joel Portman, Javier Ogaz, and Dr Jesús Treviño. “Examples of Microaggressions in the Classroom.” University of Denver, Center for Multicultural Excellence. https://www.messiah.edu/download/downloads/id/921/Microaggressions_in_the_Classroom.pdf

  2. Bunch, Lonnie. “The Little Rock Nine.” National Museum of African American History and Culture. Smithsonian Institution, September 6, 2018. https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/little-rock-nine.

  3. DeAngelis, Tori. “Unmasking 'Racial Micro Aggressions'.” Monitor on Psychology. American Psychological Association, vo.l 40, no. 2 (February 2009): 42. https://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/02/microaggression.

  4. Focused.Arts.Media.Education. “MICROAGGRESSIONS IN THE CLASSROOM.” YouTube video, 18:03, May 14, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZahtlxW2CIQ

  5. Gehrman, Elizabeth. “Microaggressions and Their Role in Mental Illness.” Harvard Gazette. Harvard Public Affairs and Communications, November 20, 2019. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/11/microaggressions-and-their-role-in-mental-illness/.

  6. Nigatu, Heben. “21 Racial Microaggressions You Hear On A Daily Basis.” BuzzFeed, November 12, 2019. https://www.buzzfeed.com/hnigatu/racial-microagressions-you-hear-on-a-daily-basis?utm_term=.ybv22nLRd.

  7. Reid, Esthanette, "How Racial Microaggressions Impact the Mental Health of Black Women of Different Occupational Prestige" (2017). Honors College Theses. 27. http://scholarworks.umb.edu/honors_theses/27

  8. Von Robertson, Ray, and Cassandra Chaney. “‘I Know it [Racism] Still Exists Here:’ African American Males at Predominantly White Institution.” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, Digital Commons @ Humboldt State University, vol. 1, iss. 39 (2017): 260-282. https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&context=hjsr

  9. “I, Too, Am Harvard”. Tumblr, March 2014. https://itooamharvard.tumblr.com/page/2.

  10. “I, Too, Am Oxford.” Tumblr, March 2014. https://itooamoxford.tumblr.com/archive.

  11. “Tool: Recognizing Microaggressions and the Messages They Send.” https://academicaffairs.ucsc.edu/events/documents/Microaggressions_Examples_Arial_2014_11_12.pdf

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