[eBook Code] Microintervention Strategies (eBook Code, 1st)

Chapter 1 – Taking Responsibility to Address Bias and Discrimination

• The Failure to Act

• The Relationship Between Microaggressions and Macroaggressions
  • Macroassaults in Institutional Policies and Practices
  • Macroaggressions as Systemic Racism
  • Macroaggressions in Standard Operating Procedures
  • The Need to Take Action
    • Targets
    • White Allies
    • Bystanders

Chapter 2 – What are Microinterventions?

• Distinguishing Microinterventions from Macrointerventions

• Three Forms of Microinterventions
• Microaffirmations
• Microprotections
• Racial Literacy and Critical Consciousness
• Promote Ethnic Pride
• Preparation for Racism

• Microchallenges

Chapter 3 – Psychological Benefits of Microinterventions and the Psychological Costs of

• Inaction

• Active Antiracist Interventions: Benefits and Costs
  • Targets
  • Significant Others
  • White Allies
  • Bystanders
  • Prosocial Social Norms and Contexts
  • Psychosocial Costs to Whites

Chapter 4 – Barriers to Combatting Micro and Macroaggressions

• Being Oblivious, Innocent and Naïve

• Minimizing the Harm

• Maintaining Harmony and Avoiding Conflict

• Fearing Repercussions

• Being Paralyzed and Impotent

Chapter 5 – Overcoming Silence, Inaction and Complicity

• Learn to Recognize and Decode Hidden Expressions of Bias

• Become Aware of the Toxicity and Harmful Impact of Micro/Macroaggressions

• Create Norms that Counter Conflict Avoidance and Enhance Racial Dialogues

• Seek Social Support and Allies

• Obtain Skills and Tactics to Respond to Micro/Macroaggressions

Chapter 6 – Microintervention Strategies to Make the “Invisible” Visible

• Strategic Goal: Make Microaggressions Visible
  • Develop perspicacity
  • Disempower the innuendo by naming it
  • Undermine the meta-communication
  • Challenge the stereotype
  • Broaden the ascribed trait
  • Ask for clarification of a statement or action
  • Make the meta-communication explicit by restating/rephrasing the statement or action
  • Reverse and restate the compliment, action and role as if was meant for the perpetrator
  • Strategic Goal: Make Macroaggressions Visible
    • Monitor and document
    • Encourage implementation of systems of evaluation, accountability and rewards
    • Leverage your power and privileged identities

Chapter 7 – Microintervention Strategies to Educate Perpetrator and Stakeholders

• Strategic Goal: Educate Perpetrators
  • Differentiate between intent and impact
  • Appeal to the offender’s values and principles
  • Point out the commonality
  • Promote empathy
  • Point out how they benefit
  • Strategic Goal: Challenging Macroaggressions through Education
    • Raise critical thinking
    • Support anti-bias education and training
    • Highlight the benefits of diversity and equity

Chapter 8 – Microintervention Strategy and Tactics to Disarm Microaggressions and Macroaggression

• Strategic Goal: Disarm Microaggressions
  • Express disagreement
  • State values and set limits
  • Describe what is happening
  • Use an exclamation
  • Use nonverbal communication
  • Interrupt and redirect
  • Remind them of the rules
  • Strategic Goal: Disarm Macroaggressions
    • Protest and persuade
    • Engage in civil disobedience
    • Challenge the status quo through media
    • Enhance collective action

Chapter 9 – Microintervention Strategies for Using External Support and Alliances

• Strategic Goal: Seeking External Support/Validation in Fighting Microaggressions
  • Alert leadership
  • Report
  • Therapy/counseling
  • Spirituality/religion/counseling
  • Buddy system
  • Support group
  • Strategic Goal: Seeking External Support/Validation in Fighting Macroaggressions
    • Call on the support of human rights organizations
    • Initiate legislative action
    • Seek community support

Chapter 10 – Microinterventions - A Call to Action for Caretakers and Teachers

• Prime Time for Developing Minds
• Talking Race to Children

Chapter 11- Microintervention Implication for Caretakers and Educators

• Make the “Invisible” Visible

• Educate Stakeholders

• Disarm the Micro/Macroaggression

• Seek External Support

• Implications for Future Study

• Conclusions