Experiences with microaggressions and discrimination in racially diverse and homogeneously white contexts.

Abstract

The interaction between one's context and identity may be essential in understanding people's racial experiences. Objectives: In this study we examined two contexts (racially diverse vs. homogenously White) and measured the experiences of discrimination and microaggressions for monoracial People of Color (POC), multiracial, and White individuals. Additionally, we measured experience of microaggressions with a new scale that addressed multiracial specific microaggressions, and offensiveness of these microaggressions. Methods and Results: Through a self-reported survey, monoracial POC, multiracial, and White individuals across the U.S. reported their experiences with discrimination and microaggressions, and offensiveness of multiracial specific microaggressions. Overall, monoracial POC and multiracial individuals reported experiencing less discrimination and microaggressions in diverse contexts vs. homogenous contexts. White individuals reported the lowest amounts of discrimination and microaggressions, which did not differ across contexts. Conclusions: Living in a racially diverse context may have positive benefits for racial minorities, and White individuals do not necessarily experience greater instances of discrimination or microaggressions in diverse contexts.

Alcohol Use and Related Consequences for Monoracial and Multiracial Native American/American Indian College students

“…Whether these differences in urban versus reservation/rural drinking characteristics MONORACIAL AND MULTIRACIAL NATIVE AMERICAN ALCOHOL USE 8 among NA/AI individuals are manifested among NA/AI college students on urban versus rural campuses is not clear, though such information would be of high immediate value to college health educators and clinicians. Although, to our knowledge, no previous research has examined differences in alcohol use between Multiracial college students in urban versus rural settings, past work suggests that Multiracial people experience less discrimination when they live in racially diverse settings compared to homogenously White environments (Meyers et al, 2020).…”

“White people stress me out all the time”: Black students define racial trauma.

“…Because psychologists must continue to develop culturally informed healing modalities, assessments, and research methods to accurately evaluate and treat racial trauma (Comas-Díaz et al, 2019), the definition should be grounded in the awareness that Black experiences are also informed by the generation and environmental contexts in which they live. Black collegians at PWIs frequently experience racism (Meyers et al, 2020; Pieterse et al, 2010), so racial trauma scholarship should be augmented by their personal meanings given their involvement in racial justice movements such as Black Lives Matter (Hargons et al, 2017).…”

ThePost‐PoliticalViolence of Racial Property Regimes: Maintaining Gardens’ Land Insecurity through Abstract Codes in East Harlem,NYC

“…Leaving gardeners to trail behind during the city-developer-gardener negotiations, city officials committed different kinds of microaggressions to exclude them from the interpretation of the licence agreements. Microaggression can be defined as subtle, often unconscious, verbal and nonverbal behaviours excluding, negating, or nullifying the thoughts, feelings, or reality of a person, with the effect of invalidating or insulting him or her (Meyers et al 2020). These cumulative psychological effects are working at the intersection of class, race, sexuality, gender, language, accent, and immigration status to form subtle racism or discrimination (Huber and Solorzano 2014).…”