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Microaggressions and Philosophy book cover

1st Edition

Microaggressions and Philosophy

Edited By Lauren Freeman, Jeanine Weekes Schroer Copyright 2020
292 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This 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,... Read more
  1. Introduction: Microaggressions and Philosophy

    2. Lauren Freeman

  2. Sticks and Stones Can Break Your Bones and Words Can Really Hurt You:

    3. A Standpoint Epistemological Reply to Critics of the Microaggression Research Program

    Lauren Freeman and Heather Stewart

  3. Microaggressions, Mechanisms, and Harm

    4. Cameron Evans and Ron Mallon

  4. Psychological Research on Racial Microaggressions: Community Science and Concept Explication

    5. Morgan Thompson

  5. Taking the Measure of Microaggression: How to Put Boundaries on a Nebulous Concept

    6. Regina Rini

  6. Escalating Linguistic Violence: From Microaggressions to Hate Speech

    7. Emma McClure

  7. Outing Foreigners: Accent and Linguistic Microaggressions

    8. Saray Ayala-López

  8. I Know What Happened to Me: The Epistemic Harms of Microaggression

    9. Saba Fatima

  9. A Defense of Intentional Microaggressions and Microaggressive Harassment:

    10. The Fundamental Attribution Error, Harassment, and Gaslighting of Transgender Athletes

    Christina Friedlaender & Rachel McKinnon

  10. Microaggressions as a Disciplinary Technique for Fat and Potentially Fat Bodies

    11. Alison Reiheld

  11. The Message in the Microaggression: Epistemic Oppression at the Intersection of Disability and Race

    12. Jeanine Weekes Schroer and Zara Bain

  12. Racial Methodological Microaggressions: When Good Intersectionality Goes Bad

          Tempest M. Henning

Biography

Lauren Freeman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Louisville, USA. Her research interests span the areas of analytic feminist philosophy, philosophy of medicine, and philosophy of emotion. She has published articles on microaggressions, implicit bias, and stereotype threat, and is currently writing a book on microaggressions in medicine.

Jeanine Weekes Schroer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA. Her research areas include social philosophy, feminist theory, critical race theory, and epistemologies of ignorance.

"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

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