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Catchword for “microaggression”
Catchword: microaggression
Filed Under: ,
Part of Speech: n.
The part of speech reflects that used in the full entry, and not necessarily the part of speech as it is used in the quotation below.
Quotation: Chester M. Pierce says that the society is unrelenting in teaching its white youth how to maximize the advantages of being on the offense toward Blacks. He further advances the notion that offensive mechanisms, “the small, continuous bombardments of micro-aggression by whites to blacks is the essential ingredient in race relations and race interactions.”
Article or Document Title:
“Offensive Mechanisms” (URL)
Author:
Chester M. Pierce
Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
The Black Seventies
Date of Publication:
1970
Page Number:
282
Originally published in:
Original Article, Document, or Publication Title:
“Black Studies: A Discussion of Evaluation”
Original Author:
LeRoi R. Ray, Jr.
Original Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
Journal of Negro Education
Original Page Number: 391
Origial Volume: 45
Orginal Number or Issue: secno
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