The moment of microaggression: The experience of acts of oppression, dehumanization, and exploitation

Dover, Michael A.

doi:10.1080/10911359.2016.1237920

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“…Participants also experienced both anger and empathy in response to the experience of nonverbal microaggressions. This aligns with emotional themes found in research on the short-term impact of microaggressions (Dover, 2016).…”

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confidence: 83%

“…Research on the short-term impact of microaggressions has found the experience leads to a variety of effects ranging from fear to anger to empathy (Dover, 2016). Other research on microaggressions has shown a negative impact on a person's mental health including increased 2 depressive symptoms (F(1,354) = 7.43, p < .01) and decreased positive affect (F(1,354) = 8.43, p < .01) (Nadal, Griffin, Wong, Hamit, & Ramus, 2014), as well as higher levels of distress (average r = .72, p < .001) (Torres-Harding & Turner, 2015), internalizing of negative emotions (p < .01) (Wang, Leul, & Schodal, 2011) and feelings of marginalization (Joshi, McCutcheon, & Sweet, 2015;Shelton & Delgado-Romero, 2011).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Embodied Nonverbal Microaggressions from the Perspective of Dance/Movement Therapists: Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

Schultz

2018

Am J Dance Ther

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This interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) study explored dance/movement therapist's embodied experiences of nonverbal microaggressions and how they experience nonverbal microaggressions in the clinical relationship. Data were collected via hour-long, video recorded, in-person interviews of four (N = 4) current practicing dance/movement therapists in the Chicago area. Data analysis was conducted using IPA of verbal and movement data where five key themes emerged (a) personal offense, (b) anger, and (c) curiosity towards experiences of nonverbal microaggressions; and microaggressions have the potential to both (d) strengthen and (e) harm the clinical relationship. Their experiences implicate the vital role the body plays in the experience of microaggressions by highlighting how the body responds to these experiences via changes in flow, retreating, and moving the limbs over the center of the body. An embodied movement response to nonverbal themes was created by the researcher in an attempt to more clearly articulate the themes of the movement data and is included as an embedded link.

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confidence: 83%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Embodied Nonverbal Microaggressions from the Perspective of Dance/Movement Therapists: Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

Schultz

2018

Am J Dance Ther

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“…At the individual level—and among individuals, groups, communities, and social groups—how is human injustice experienced? Is it experienced via everyday acts of oppression, mechanistic dehumanization, and exploitation, such as microaggressions and macroaggressions (Dover 2016c)? How systematically unequal are opportunities to access satisfiers of human need?…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Needs-based Partial Theory of Human Injustice: Oppression, Dehumanization, Exploitation, and Systematic Inequality in Opportunities to Address Human Needs

Dover

2019

Humanity & Society

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This article presents an original needs-based partial theory of human injustice and shows its relationship to existing theories of human need and human liberation. The theory is based on an original typology of three social structural sources of human injustice, a partial theorization of the mechanisms of human injustice, and a needs-based theorization of the nature of human injustice, as experienced by individuals. This article makes a sociological contribution to normative social theory by clarifying the relationship of human injustice to human needs, human rights, and human liberation. The theory contends that human injustice is produced when oppression, mechanistic dehumanization, and exploitation create systematic inequality in opportunities to address human needs, leading to wrongful need deprivation and the resulting serious harm. In one longer sentence, this needs-based theory of the sources, mechanisms, and nature of human injustice contends that three distinct social systemic sources—oppression, mechanistic dehumanization, and exploitation—produce unique and/or overlapping social mechanisms, which create systematic inequality in opportunities to address universal human needs in culturally specific ways, thus producing the nature of the human injustice theorized here: wrongfully unmet needs and serious harm.

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“…Thus, micro/macroaggressions are simultaneously historical and lived. They are experienced at multiple timescales, referencing memories of individuals, families, and communities, as well as historical events (Dover, 2016). This layered nature explains my use of the term micro/macroaggression.…”

Section: Forms Of Micro/macroaggression: a Review Of The Literaturementioning

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Microaggressions and Macroaggressions Across Time: The Longitudinal Construction of Inequality in Schools

Compton‐Lilly

2019

Urban Education

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This article reveals inequity as a longitudinal construction involving the cumulation of micro/macroaggressions for children who live in high-poverty communities and attend poorly funded schools. Drawing on critical race theory and empirical research that documents forms of micro/macroaggression, a longitudinal analysis is used to identify forms of micro/macroaggression encountered in elementary school, middle school, and high school. A set of mega-aggressions that were particularly severe and had devastating effects on students’ academic outcomes are identified and explored as mega-aggressions. The article concludes by exploring the cumulation of micro/macroaggressions across one student’s school trajectory.

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The moment of microaggression: The experience of acts of oppression, dehumanization, and exploitation

Cited by 15 publications

References 42 publications

Embodied Nonverbal Microaggressions from the Perspective of Dance/Movement Therapists: Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

Embodied Nonverbal Microaggressions from the Perspective of Dance/Movement Therapists: Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

A Needs-based Partial Theory of Human Injustice: Oppression, Dehumanization, Exploitation, and Systematic Inequality in Opportunities to Address Human Needs

Microaggressions and Macroaggressions Across Time: The Longitudinal Construction of Inequality in Schools

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