Contents
Series Foreword?vii
James A. Banks
Acknowledgments?xv
Artist?s Statement?xix
Luis-Genaro Garcia
Introduction: Origin Stories: How We Came to Study Racial Microaggressions?1
Danny?s Story?1
Lindsay?s Story?8
Our Stories Coming Together to Further Theorize Racial Microaggressions?14
Overview of the Book?17
1.??Laying the Conceptual Groundwork for Understanding Racial Microaggressions?19
Counterstories of Everyday Racism?19
Majoritarian Stories of Everyday Racism?22
Recognizing History to Name Everyday Racism?25
Chester Pierce and the Conceptual Development of Racial Microaggressions?30
Defining Race and Racism?32
Using Critical Race Theory to Theorize Racial Microaggressions?33
2.??Understanding the Types, Contexts, Effects, and Responses to Racial Microaggressions Using Critical Race Hypos?37
A Critical Race Hypo?37
Types of Microaggressions?39
Contexts of Microaggressions?41
Effects of Microaggressions?42
Responses to Microaggressions?45
3.??Examining the ?Micro? Versus the ?Macro? in Researching Racial Microaggressions?51
Theorizing the Macroaggression: A Tree Metaphor?52
Macroaggression: The Roots of Racism?52
Institutional Racism: The Trunk and Branches?53
Racial Microaggression: The Leaves?54
Applying the Framework?56
4.??Racism Within and Between Communities of Color: Internalized Racism?66
Internalized Racism: The Clark Doll Experiment?69
Internalized Racist Nativism: El Teatro Campesino?s ?El Corrido??71
Intergroup Conflict: The ?Blexit? Movement?77
5.??Responding to Racial Microaggressions: Theorizing Racial Microaffirmations?84
Theorizing Racial Microaffirmations?85
Examples of Racial Microaffirmations: Existing Literature?88
Examples of Racial Microaffirmations: Our Personal Stories?92
Examples of Racial Microaffirmations: Empirical Evidence?94
6.??Conclusion?98
Future Research on Racial Microaggressions: Promising Areas?99
Praxis: Disrupting Racial Microaggressions?106
Notes?111
References?125
Index?144
About the Authors?155
