Papers by Layla Huber-Verjan
Seattle Journal of Social Justice , 2020
This article follows a Critical Race tradition of counterstorytelling to tell three stories from ... more This article follows a Critical Race tradition of counterstorytelling to tell three stories from across three generations of Critical Race Scholars in Education. In each of our stories, we explain how we came to research racial microaggressions and how this work eventually led us to our current theorizing of racial microaffirmations. We have theorized racial microaffirmations as one of many responses to racial microaggressions. In this article, we define racial microaffirmations as subtle verbal and non-verbal strategies People of Color consciously engage (with other People of Color) that affirm each other's value, integrity, and shared humanity. We explain how racial microaffirmations have emerged within our own work and provide theoretical evidence of the concept, as discussed in research on self-affirmation theory in psychology. Finally, we provide examples of racial microaffirmations in the literature and encourage other scholars to conceptually and empirically examine the concept in the experiences of People of Color.
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Papers by Layla Huber-Verjan