by lindaoppenheim | May 24, 2019 | Documents
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 26, 2019 | Article
A teacher shares an approach to helping first-graders understand microaggressions. “A critical difference between microaggressions and other instances of hurt feelings is the impact—a steady, slow-burning, detrimental accumulation of biases played out with...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 29, 2018 | Article
Experience of both egregious acts of injustice and microaggressions and even visual exposure to such events causes racial trauma with the familiar symptoms of PTSD–depression, fear based distrust of surroundings, anxiety, hyper alertness and angry outbursts...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 2, 2016 | Article, Documents
Those who attended the November 1 Racial Literacy session saw the blog post by an undergraduate who was erroneously charged by her professor with committing plagiarism. Presenter Dr. Ruha Benjamin showed the post, Academia, Love Me Back, as an example of the...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 7, 2016 | Article
Stephanie Saul’s article describes programs on several college campuses to help their incoming classes avoid hurting fellow students with microaggressions and other insensitivities. She also refers to “[t]he backlash . . . exemplified recently in a widely...