...Rasha Diab; Beth Godbee; Cedric Burrows; Thomas Ferrel This article names microaggressions as a rhetorical and pedagogical phenomenon. To make the case for rhetorical and pedagogical intervention, the authors define and trace microaggressions in literature from rhetoric, composition, and literacy...

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... as a microaggression. Microaggressions are subtle but commonplace verbal, behavioral, or environmental slights against minoritized racial or ethnic groups (Pierce 1978 ; Sue 2010 ) that “generally occur below the level of awareness of well-intentioned people” (Sue 2010 : 9), necessitating critical racial...

... aggressions that are ignored or relegated to an utterly privatized discourse (62). For example, if an Asian woman says she experienced a racial microaggression in the classroom, her views are often seen as reflections of her private experiences rather than an expression of the continued institutionalized...

... in frontstage and backstage discourse settings. This is not to minimize the racisms of the Southwest, or even to claim that backstage racism functions differently in the Southwest. I just think rac- isms, especially everyday lived realities of overt racism and microaggressions, seemed less visible...

... correctness, but this time in the form of, as Weigel put it, trigger warnings, safe spaces, microaggressions, privilege and cultural appropriation. And, like political correctness, rarely do we see arguments in favor of these concepts; rather, most conversations are against trigger warnings...

..., is that these public forums, as many of these authors admit (Affolter 2019 : 23; DiAngelo 2018 : 100; Harbin, Thurber, and Bandin 2019: 6; Kernahan 2019 : 48), are rife with social and environmental factors, such as microaggressions, dominance seeking, and even structural issues such as implicit bias in systems...

... (Stenberg 2011 ). If no one senses a conflict with academic policies, colleges will continue to reproduce inequality. Anger and other strong emotional reactions can be early warning signs of microaggressions and larger social injustices. Lu ( 1999 ) proposes that students gain self-conscious choice about...

... of color (Lopez and Johnson 2014: 395). The positive experiences of these select minorities are then used to mini­mize concerns raised by other minorities about hostile work places, racialized microaggressions, and lack of opportunities. Nonassimilating women of color are also more vulnerable...