Description
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to offer a philosophical engagement with microaggressions. It aims to provide an intersectional analysis of microaggressions that cuts across multiple dimensions of oppression and marginalization, and to engage a variety of perspectives that have been sidelined within the discipline of philosophy. The volume gathers a diverse group of contributors: philosophers of color, philosophers with disabilities, philosophers of various nationalities and ethnicities, and philosophers of several gender identities. Their unique frames of analysis articulate both how the concept of microaggressions can be used to clarify and sharpen our understanding of subtler aspects of oppression and how analysis, expansion, and reconceiving the notion of a microaggression can deepen and extend its explanatory power. The essays in the volume seek to defend microaggressions from common critiques and to explain their impact beyond the context of college students. Some of the guiding questi
Trade Review
"This book provides an important critique of some common conversations about micoaggressions, but it also shows us what more informed and more interesting conversations about them look like." – Stacey Goguen, Northeastern Illinois University, USA
"Microaggressions and Philosophy is a bold volume whose contributions span the scope of the structural, the interpersonal, and the scientific. It is essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy that engages with oppression and social justice." – Nora Berenstain, University of Tennessee, USA
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Microaggressions and Philosophy
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Lauren Freeman
- Sticks and Stones Can Break Your Bones and Words Can Really Hurt You:
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A Standpoint Epistemological Reply to Critics of the Microaggression Research Program
Lauren Freeman and Heather Stewart
- Microaggressions, Mechanisms, and Harm
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Cameron Evans and Ron Mallon
- Psychological Research on Racial Microaggressions: Community Science and Concept Explication
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Morgan Thompson
- Taking the Measure of Microaggression: How to Put Boundaries on a Nebulous Concept
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Regina Rini
- Escalating Linguistic Violence: From Microaggressions to Hate Speech
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Emma McClure
- Outing Foreigners: Accent and Linguistic Microaggressions
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Saray Ayala-López
- I Know What Happened to Me: The Epistemic Harms of Microaggression
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Saba Fatima
- A Defense of Intentional Microaggressions and Microaggressive Harassment:
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The Fundamental Attribution Error, Harassment, and Gaslighting of Transgender Athletes
Christina Friedlaender & Rachel McKinnon
- Microaggressions as a Disciplinary Technique for Fat and Potentially Fat Bodies
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Alison Reiheld
- The Message in the Microaggression: Epistemic Oppression at the Intersection of Disability and Race
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Jeanine Weekes Schroer and Zara Bain
- Racial Methodological Microaggressions: When Good Intersectionality Goes Bad
Tempest M. Henning
