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Book:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anah, C. (2024). Art Therapy for Racial Trauma, Microaggressions and Inequality: Social Justice and Advocacy in Therapy Work. (Jessica Kingsley Publishers).<\/a><\/p>\n

Racial Microaggressions<\/strong><\/p>\n

American psychiatrist Chester Middlebrook Pierce first coined the term racial microaggression, in the 1970s to refer to automatic and often subtle \u201cput downs\u201d directed toward African Americans (Pierce, Carew, Pierce-Gonzalez, & Willis, 1978, p. 66). Columbia professor, Derald Wing Sue expanded on the work of Pierce and colleagues (1978) and proposed a conceptual framework of how racial microaggressions manifest in the everyday lives of people of color (Sue, Capodilupo, Torino, Bucceri, Holder, Nadal, & Esquilin, 2007). Racial microaggressions are, \u201cbrief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, and environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults to the target person or group\u201d (Sue, Capodilupo, et al., 2007, p. 273). Racial microaggressions are also subtle, insensitive, automatic and sometimes unconscious verbal, non-verbal, and\/or visual insults and indignities directed towards African American people or people of color (Solorzano, Ceja, & Yosso, 2000). Simply stated, these are quick, everyday interactions that send denigrating messages to people of color (Sue, Capodilupo,\u00a0et al., 2007). <\/span><\/p>\n

References <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Pierce, C., Carew, J., Pierce-Gonzalez, D., & Willis, D. (1978). An experiment in racism: TV commercials. In C. Pierce (Ed.), Television and education<\/em> (pp. 62-88). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sol\u00f3rzano, D., Ceja, M., & Yosso, T. (2000). Critical race theory, racial microaggressions, and campus racial climate: the experiences of African American college students. Journal of Negro Education, 69<\/em>, 60-73.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sue, D.W., Capodilupo, C.M., Torino, G.C., Bucceri, J., Holder, A.M.B., Nadal, K.L., & Esquilin, M. (2007). Racial microaggressions in everyday life: Implications for clinical practice. American Psychologist<\/em>, 62<\/em>(4), 271-286. doi: 10.1037\/0003-066X.62.4.271<\/span><\/p>\n

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Racial Microaggressions- Dr. Derald Wing Sue @2015 ACA Conference in Orlando<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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President Obama and Racial Microaggressions<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following the\u00a0acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case, President Obama gave a speech to the public.<\/p>\n

Although he did not\u00a0mention it by name, the experiences President Obama describes are racial microaggressions:<\/p>\n

\u201cTrayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago\u2026I think it\u2019s important to recognize that the African American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn’t go away\u2026There are very few African American men who have not had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in the department store<\/strong>. That includes me. And there are very few African American men who haven\u2019t had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars<\/strong>. It happens to me, at least before I was a senator. There are very few African Americans who haven\u2019t had the experience of getting on the elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off<\/strong>. That happens often\u201d (Obama, 7\/19\/ 2013).<\/p>\n