Racial microaggressions

Bridging psychology and sociology and future research considerations

Bibliographic Data

ID8094989
AuthorsSilvia Dominguez (0000-0002-8965-0696, Northeastern University), David Embrick (0000-0002-4380-053X, University of Connecticut, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume14
Issue8
Publication date2020-06-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1751-9020 • E-ISSN: 1751-9020
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/soc4.12803
OpenAlexW3037861425
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited36

This article reviews racial microaggressions, specifically psychology and sociology's historical trajectory in informing existing literatures and disciplines, in its connections to meso and macro levels of systemic racism. In doing so, we contend that a sociological understanding of racial microaggressions presents opportunities to better understand the cumulative and deleterious effects of racial violence on racialized groups. Furthermore, we argue that beyond bridging the disciplines of psychology and sociology to allow for more interdisciplinary analyses of racial microaggressions will help to move conversations in ways that more meaningfully capture the monstrosity of white supremacy and its cumulative deleterious effects of daily racial terrorism at all levels of society

Bridging (networking · Criminology · Racism · Social science · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology