Twentieth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to expand participants’ understanding of what microaggressions are, how they manifest in academic spaces, what material consequences occur for people who experience microaggressions, and how to improve communication by eliminating microaggresive communication. Specifically, this paper focuses on the ways students and faculty become targets for microaggressions with regard to race, ethnicity, citizenship, age, sex, gender, and disability status. We also offer advice and recommendations from empirical data from 26 female-immigrant faculty members in the U.S.