Is microaggression an oxymoron? A mixed methods study on attitudes toward racial microaggressions among United States university students.

ABSTRACT: To best understand the possible negative health and social consequences associated with racial microaggression, in-depth understanding of how people judge these events is needed. People of Color (POC) and White participants (N = 64) were recruited for a mixed-methods study that incorporated quantitative attitude ratings and focus group interviews. Participants read and discussed their attitudes toward five vignettes that reflected microassault, microinsult, and microinvalidation scenarios. Semantic differential ratings showed that participants judged microassaults to be most unacceptable, followed by microinsults and then microinvalidations. Using a grounded theory approach, our qualitative analysis of interview data revealed five thematic categories. First, participants judged receivers'

SUBMITTER: Lui PP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7710109 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature