microaggression — Английский словарь

Существительное

1. Any small-scale verbal or physical interaction between those of different races, cultures, beliefs, or genders that may have no malicious intent, but that can be interpreted as an aggression.

   Употребление

   • употребление в США
   • исчисляемое
   • неисчисляемое

   Синонимы

   microassaultmicroinequitymicroinsultmicroinvalidationnanoaggression

   Связанные слова

   macroaggressionmicroaggressmicroaggressivemicroaggressormicroinvalidate

   Примеры

   Near-synonyms: microassault, microinequity, microinsult, microinvalidation, nanoaggression

   Другие примеры (3)

   At McGill, someone has established a McGill Microaggressions website inviting students and staff to report instances of “sexism, heteropatriarchy, transphobia, classism, racism [and] ableism.”

   Two terms have risen quickly from obscurity into common campus parlance. Microaggressions are small actions or word choices that seem on their face to have no malicious intent but that are thought of as a kind of violence nonetheless. For example, by some campus guidelines, it is a microaggression to ask an Asian American or Latino American “Where were you born?,” because this implies that he or she is not a real American.

   For many of us, microaggressions are so commonplace that it seems impossible to tackle them one at a time. Psychologists often compare them to death by a thousand cuts. The metaphor is both the subtitle to a paper that Kevin Nadal, professor of psychology at John Jay College, wrote about the impact of microaggressions on L.G.B.T.Q. youth, and the title of another paper on the health implications of black respectability politics by Hedwig Lee, professor of sociology at Washington University in St. Louis, and Margaret Takako Hicken, research assistant professor at the University of Michigan.

   Ask whether microaggressions merit the same response as physical assault and the Elect do not receive this as a challenging query.