{"id":50328,"date":"2012-08-03T13:21:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T18:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=50328"},"modified":"2013-11-08T03:30:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T08:30:01","slug":"classic-white-girl-microaggressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/08\/03\/classic-white-girl-microaggressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic “White Girl” Microaggressions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Thanks to Leticia, Caely, Anjan G., Liz, Bradley K., and Kelsey P. for their patience. \u00a0Our SocImages email inbox is a hot mess, and sometimes things fall through the cracks. \u00a0This is certainly true for the short video below, one of the responses to the “Shit Girls Say” clip that inspired a round of copycats last December. \u00a0We decided to post about it belatedly because it remains a great example of something called a microaggression.<\/p>\n

Microaggressions are\u00a0\u201cbrief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative… slights and insults” (source<\/a>). \u00a0These are often subtle. \u00a0So the recipient feels badly, but it can be difficult to explain exactly why, especially to someone who isn’t sympathetic to issues of bias. \u00a0The Microaggressions Project<\/a> has hundreds, maybe thousands, of examples.<\/p>\n

In this video, Franchesca Leigh poses as a “White girl” and says many of the things that she and other “Black girls” hear routinely. \u00a0To Leigh, these are microaggressions. \u00a0They variously trivialize and show insensitivity towards race and racism, remind the listener that she is considered different and strange, homogenize and stereotype Black people, and more…<\/p>\n

<\/object><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Leticia, Caely, Anjan G., Liz, Bradley K., and Kelsey P. for their patience. \u00a0Our SocImages email inbox is a hot mess, and sometimes things fall through the cracks. \u00a0This is certainly true for the short video below, one of the responses to the “Shit Girls Say” clip that inspired a round of copycats […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23384,283,285,1760,3875,1757,37],"class_list":["post-50328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-jews","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans","tag-social-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50328"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58277,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50328\/revisions\/58277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}