“But I Wasn’t Even Acting Black”: Internalized Racial Microaggressions Among Black High School Students

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Abstract

Black students who had documented instances of disciplinary consequences were identified and asked to participate in a series of interviews including a vignette interview and a Critical Incident Technique interview. Through those interviews, the lived experiences of those students were explored and the extent to which the student-participants perceived their race to be a factor in those experiences was considered. This paper discusses one key finding of the study: the way in which the participant responses demonstrated a pattern of internalized racial microaggressions.

Author

• Eric Bernstein, University of Connecticut