Microaggressions and marginality: manifestation, dynamics, and impact

Microaggressions are the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs or insults--whether intentional or unintentional--which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely on their maginalized group membership.Editor Derald Sue is one of the leading scholars and researchers on this crucial topic. This edited book offers an organizing framework for the concept of microaggressions and investigates the effect ofmicroaggressions on different marginalized populations. Further, it provides strategies and practices to alleaviate the negative effects of microaggressions on individuals, groups, and society. Each chapter addresses a specific marginalized group and is written by a scholar who is a member of that particular group. This gives readers the opportunity to compare and contrast the experiences of different groups with microaggressions.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-49139-3
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 384
• Fecha Publicación: 04/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés