Life or Death Decisions: How Physical Safety Influences Black Graduate Women's Responses to Gendered-Racial Microaggressions

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  In Roundtable Session: Black Women, Intersectionality, and Affirmation of Identities

Abstract

This study examined how Black female graduate students respond to gendered-racial microaggressions at a historically White institution. Using Critical Race Theory as a framework, this study also explored the social and psychological factors that contribute to their responses. Findings showed that participant responses were influenced by a fear of being physically or sexually assaulted.

Author

• Angel Jones, Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville