Via Campus Reform:
The University of Missouri Diversity Office offers a primer on microaggressions that spotlights such seemingly innocuous phrases as telling a disabled person that “you people are so inspiring.”
The handout, “Can We Talk Microaggressions in Every Day [sic] Life,” highlights the messages behind common microaggressions and is available on the Mizzou Diversity website, a part of the Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative.
The handout was adapted from the books Microaggressions and Marginality: Manifestations, Dynamics, and Impact and Microaggressions In Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation, both by Dr. Derald Wing Sue.
Sue is a professor of counseling psychology at Columbia University’s Teachers College, and has written numerous publications about multicultural counseling, ethnic diversity, minority issues, racism and antiracism, and psychology.
He is best known for his book Counseling the Ethnically Diverse: Theory and Practice, which discusses social justice and racial identity in counseling, especially for minorities. Sue also served on President Bill Clinton’s President Advisory Board on Race in 1996.