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Challenging the Status Quo: Strategies for Confronting Microaggressions
Abstract
Challenging microaggressions occurs on a continuum of efforts, from individual to individual reporting and coalition demands to larger unifying demonstrations for systemic change. A near reflection of the polarizing efforts of the civil rights movement to be peaceful or aggressive, documented and suggested methods to confront microaggressions range from kindness to transforming organizational culture. Are there advantageous ways of confrontation that emancipate African Americans in higher education to remain, flourish, and accumulate the necessary social capital to make real change? African Americans in higher education can point to myriad microaggressions, direct and implied, delivered in jest or false humility, with options for address. This chapter explores ways to confront microaggressions that exist on a continuum of actions ranging from direct individual responses to appealing to governing bodies for organizational change.
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