Microaggressions: Death by a Thousand Cuts
The everyday slights, insults and offensive behaviors that people of marginalized groups experience in daily interactions cause real psychological harm
Derald Wing Sue is a professor of psychology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is author of Microaggressions in Everyday Life, second edition (John Wiley, 2020), and Microintervention Strategies: What You Can Do to Disarm and Dismantle Individual and Systemic Racism and Bias (John Wiley, 2020).
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