Lisa Blamfort Reading Journal#5

Derald Wing Sue in “Microaggressions in everyday life: race, gender, and sexual orientation” explains how our daily interchange implicates intentional or unintentional discrimination against members of a marginalized group and this action is called “microaggression”, its cans be based on race and gender. The one that formed on race is named racial microaggressions that is quotidian slights, insults, indignities and denigrating communication addressed to people of color by ignorant white people These messages may be sent orally, nonverbally or environmentally. We have also Gender Microaggressions that built on gender that are some

Harmless comments that can ton up overtime period and affect a person’s sense of self and identity. The author supports her studies by saying people of color usually face microaggressions in their daily reaction with friends, neighbors, co-workers, teachers, and employers. Those negatives interchange make them feel excluded, untrustworthy, second-class citizens, and abnormal therefore Microaggressions has a Harmful Impact on people of color, it affects their opportunities, their well-being, and their sense of agency.

“An Introduction to Gender in Social Institutions” by “Victoria Pruin DeFrancisco & Catherine Helen Palczewski” in “Communicating Gender Diversity: A Critical Approach” talks how someone’s performance of gender through communication, body, and language are characteristics by social institutions. These traits emphasis who we are today and what is our gender role in society. Those social institutions are evolved between micropolitics that is settlement over power, meso- politics touch on to the power apply by groups within institutions, and to make sure those power respected they established rules, law, norms and policies called macropolitics.

Prejudice Versus Institutionalized Discrimination, those institutions have negative affects and push people intentionally to bias unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, especially of a hostile nature, regarding an ethnic, racial, social, or religious group and those intentional or unintentional discriminatory mistreatment are formed by society and its institutions.

Institutional control those social Institutions make sure those norms, rules, policies are being execute and assist gender expectations and discriminations by prime class. the supreme ideas, values, beliefs, perceptions, and understandings from these institutions known to a group of a society that lead their behaviors even if it come in contradiction with himself or herself. It is achieved generally by mind control or control if ideas.

Institutionalized Gendered/Sexed Violence, we lived in society where men are expected to be violent and women are not these stereotypes make us insensitive to domestic violence toward a woman in a household because this is society’s norm and culture. These institutions of violence have a big impact on woman happiness.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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