Microaggressions and Social Work Research, Practice and Education

Michael S. Spencer is the Fedele F. Fauri Collegiate Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan, USA. His research examines inequities in physical and mental health among low-income, populations of color, including the impact of discrimination on the well-being of African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Pacific Islander populations.

• Introduction 1. The Injurious Relationship Between Racial Microaggressions and Physical Health: Implications for Social Work 2. Is Ethnic Identity a Buffer? Exploring the Relations Between Racial Microaggressions and Depressive Symptoms Among Asian-American Individuals 3. "Our Kids Aren’t Dropping Out; They’re Being Pushed Out": Native American Students and Racial Microaggressions in Schools 4. Correlates of Interpersonal Ethnoracial Discrimination Among Latino Adults with Diabetes: Findings from the REACH Detroit Study 5. Everyday Racial Discrimination, Everyday Non-Racial Discrimination, and Physical Health Among African-Americans 6. Sexual Orientation, Gender, and Gender Identity Microaggressions: Toward an Intersectional Framework for Social Work Research 7. A Mixed-Methods Inquiry Into Trans* Environmental Microaggressions on College Campuses: Experiences and Outcomes 8. Victimization and Microaggressions Targeting LGBTQ College Students: Gender Identity As a Moderator of Psychological Distress 9. "You are a Besya": Microaggressions Experienced by Trafficking Survivors Exploited in the Sex Trade 10. Religious Microaggressions: A Case Study of Muslim Americans 11. Homeless Microaggressions: Implications for Education, Research, and Practice 12. Microaggressions in social work classrooms: strategies for pedagogical intervention 13. The impacts of processing the use of derogatory language in a social work classroom 14. Microaggressions: Intervening in three acts 15. Teaching racial microaggressions: implications of critical race hypos for social work praxis 16. Examining racial microaggressions as a tool for transforming social work education: the case for critical race pedagogy 17. Addressing microaggressions and acts of oppression within online classrooms by utilizing principles of transformative learning and liberatory education 18. Multiracial Microaggressions: Implications for Social Work Education and Practice 19. Racial microaggressions in social work education: Black students’ encounters in a predominantly White institution