TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - A preliminary report on the relationship between microaggressions against Black people and racism among White college students
JO  - Race and social problems
A1  - Kanter, Jonathan W.
A1  - Williams, Monnica T.
A1  - Kuczynski, Adam M.
A1  - Manbeck, Katherine E.
A1  - Debreaux, Marlena
A1  - Rosen, Daniel C.
SP  - 291
EP  - 299
VL  - 9
IS  - 4
N2  - Previous efforts to understand microaggressions have surveyed stigmatized group members' experiences of receiving microaggressions. This report presents the first attempt to measure self-reported likelihood of delivering microaggressions rather than receiving microaggressions and to explore the association between the likelihood of delivering microaggressions and racial prejudice. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of 33 black and 118 non-Hispanic white undergraduate students at a large public Southern/Midwest university. Black students reported the degree to which a series of statements would be experienced as microaggressive. White students reported their likelihood of delivering those statements and completed measures of racial prejudice. White students' self-reported likelihood of engaging in microaggressive acts was significantly related to all measures of racial prejudice. The single item "A lot of minorities are too sensitive" was the strongest predictor of negative feelings toward black people. <br><br>RESULTS offer preliminary support that the delivery of microaggressions by white students is not simply innocuous behavior and may be indicative of broad, complex, and negative racial attitudes and explicit underlying hostility and negative feelings toward black students.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1867-1756
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12552-017-9214-0
ID  - ref1
ER  -