Theorizing Racial Micro-Affirmations as a Response to Racial Microaggressions

• In Event: 45.092 - MTCC Roundtable Session 17
  In Roundtable Session: 45.092-2 - Critical Race Analysis, Racial Disproportionality, and Racial Violence in Schools

Abstract

This study seeks to name and theorize a specific type of response to racial microaggressions, racial affirmations. Racial affirmations are a form of resistance to everyday racism that are small and/or brief interactions (acts or interventions of love) that make People of Color feel acknowledged and valued. We explore the varied forms of racial affirmations that emerge in everyday interactions and emerge in places such as textbooks, children’s books, and school curriculum.

Authors

• Lindsay Perez Huber, California State University - Long Beach

• Daniel Gilbert Solorzano, University of California - Los Angeles

• Layla Huber-Verjan, Archer School for Girls