Toward a Racial Microaggressions Model Analysis of White Innocence
摘要
As part of their racial microaggressions model, Pérez Huber and Solórzano (Race Ethn Edu 18:297–320, 2015) express the importance of identifying the ideological foundations of white supremacy that act as the groundwork of oppressive activities that can eventually be demonstrated in the form of racial microaggressions. The tri-level model includes 1) racial microaggressions themselves, 2) institutional racism that provides the structure for the perpetration of microaggressions, and 3) macroaggressions, the ideological positions that scaffold arrangements of social domination and privilege. In this conceptual essay, I employ the racial microaggressions model to posit that the discourse of white innocence, those discursive moves that work to avoid white racial accountability (Ross in Vanderbilt Law Rev 43:297–316 1990; William Mary Law Rev 32:1–40 1990), acts at both the third level, as a macroaggression in support of white supremacy, and at the first level, as a microaggression experienced by Students of Color. I exemplify this process by describing and analyzing two separate experiences of Latinx high school students.