news sociology colloquium 11/3/2021 october 27 2021 sociology colloquium 11/3/2021 did you see that too unpacking the role of reasoning about & exposure to microaggressions dr allegra j midgette texas a&m university prior scholarship has found that us college students of racial and ethnic minoritized backgrounds experience frequent subtle behaviors that communicate negative messages towards their group or themselves as individuals (nadal et al 2015; solorzano et al 2000; sue 2010; sue et al 2007) also termed microaggressions (pierce et al 1978; sue 2010; sue et al 2007) although microaggressions in higher education often occur in the presence of student bystanders prior research suggests that individuals from dominant groups may not perceive such events as discriminatory (lithinfeld 2007; sue et al 2008a; tynes & markoe 2010) moreover the majority of the research on microaggressions has focused on the experiences of targets (lilienfeld 2017) rather than perpetrators of microaggressive behaviors (kanter et al 2017) in todays talk i will be presenting our recent research that has aimed to unpack both the role of exposure to microaggressions (eg observer versus target) in informing students understanding of racism and sexism as well as the role of reasoning about microaggressions as an important method for capturing students evaluations and recognition of racial microaggressions (midgette & mulvey 2021; midgette & mulvey under review) implications of these studies for both research methods and educational interventions will be discussed about dr midgette: allegra j midgette phd is a visiting assistant professor and aces fellow in the department of psychological and brain sciences at texas a&m university she recently completed a two-year nichd t32 postdoctoral fellowship at the frank porter graham child development institute at the university of north carolina at chapel hill she received her phd in human development in education from the university of california berkeley dr midgette graduated from brown university with a ba in education with honors magna cum laude and phi beta kappa dr midgettes research investigates the origins and social processes that support individuals in developing an understanding of justice and learning how to care for others in an inequitable and unjust world her work addresses two key questions: 1) how do we come to care about each other and about justice within the family and 2) how do we become just in the face of inequality to investigate these questions dr midgette employs a mixed methodology that places the experiential reality of children adolescents emerging adults and their families at the forefront the long-term goal of her work is to characterize how cultural societal and family practices influence individual moral development with the ultimate aim of supporting the creation of interventions that contribute to individuals development into more caring and just individuals november 3 2021 wednesday 12–1:30pm zoom meeting meeting id: 913 1948 1544 passcode: 715352 if you cannot join with video you can connect to the zoom session via phone: 1–346–248–7799 colloquium news college students ethnicity microaggressions minorities race