Microaggressions and Social Work Research, Practice and Education

ISBN-13: 9781138624719 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 278 str.

Michael S. Spencer

Opis

This book highlights research, ideas, and practices pertaining to ways in which microaggressions and other subtle forms of discrimination impact marginalized populations within social work and human services. The chapters were originally published in a series of special issues of the Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work.

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Introduction  1. The Injurious Relationship Between Racial Microaggressions and Physical Health: Implications for Social Work  2. Is Ethnic Identity a Buffer? Exploring the Relations Between Racial Microaggressions and Depressive Symptoms Among Asian-American Individuals  3. "Our Kids Aren’t Dropping Out; They’re Being Pushed Out": Native American Students and Racial Microaggressions in Schools  4. Correlates of Interpersonal Ethnoracial Discrimination Among Latino Adults with Diabetes: Findings from the REACH Detroit Study  5. Everyday Racial Discrimination, Everyday Non-Racial Discrimination, and Physical Health Among African-Americans  6. Sexual Orientation, Gender, and Gender Identity Microaggressions: Toward an Intersectional Framework for Social Work Research  7. A Mixed-Methods Inquiry Into Trans* Environmental Microaggressions on College Campuses: Experiences and Outcomes  8. Victimization and Microaggressions Targeting LGBTQ College Students: Gender Identity As a Moderator of Psychological Distress  9. "You are a Besya": Microaggressions Experienced by Trafficking Survivors Exploited in the Sex Trade  10. Religious Microaggressions: A Case Study of Muslim Americans  11. Homeless Microaggressions: Implications for Education, Research, and Practice  12. Microaggressions in social work classrooms: strategies for pedagogical intervention  13. The impacts of processing the use of derogatory language in a social work classroom  14. Microaggressions: Intervening in three acts  15. Teaching racial microaggressions: implications of critical race hypos for social work praxis  16. Examining racial microaggressions as a tool for transforming social work education: the case for critical race pedagogy  17. Addressing microaggressions and acts of oppression within online classrooms by utilizing principles of transformative learning and liberatory education  18. Multiracial Microaggressions: Implications for Social Work Education and Practice  19. Racial microaggressions in social work education: Black students’ encounters in a predominantly White institution

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Michael S. Spencer is the Fedele F. Fauri Collegiate Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan, USA. His research examines inequities in physical and mental health among low-income, populations of color, including the impact of discrimination on the well-being of African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Pacific Islander populations.