Consequences of the Ambiguous Insult: A Review of Literature on Gender, Race, and LGBTQ-Based Microaggressions

Author

Emily Halvorson, University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaFollow

Periodical Title

Modern Psychological Studies

Volume

25

Number

2

Department

Dept. of Psychology

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

For over thirty years, microaggressions have been studied for their weight on members of groups like ethnic and racial minorities, women and members of the LGBTQ community. Microaggressions are the routine, derogatory interactions like slights gestures, snubs or minor insults. Microaggressions yield physical and psychological distress to victims and communicate to marginalized groups the biases and prejudices against them harbored by majority group members. This taxonomy divides the experiences of microaggressions into the categories of gender, racial and LGBTQ-based sectors, as well as the subcategories that are relevant to the experiences of the members when faced with microaggressions.

Subject

Psychology

Keyword

microaggressions; sexism; racism; LGBTQ; minority groups; discrimination

Discipline

Psychology

Document Type

article

DCMI Type

Text

Language

English

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Recommended Citation

Halvorson, Emily (2020) "Consequences of the Ambiguous Insult: A Review of Literature on Gender, Race, and LGBTQ-Based Microaggressions," Modern Psychological Studies: Vol. 25: No. 2, Article 9.
Available at: https://scholar.utc.edu/mps/vol25/iss2/9