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Microaggressions aren't just innocent blunders – new research links them with racial bias

  • Written by Jonathan Kanter, Director of the Center for the Science of Social Connection, University of Washington
Microaggressions aren't just innocent blunders – new research links them with racial biasThey're not just honest or ignorant mistakes, and they can poison an otherwise pleasant interaction.Hinterhaus Productions/DigitalVision via Getty Images

A white man shares publicly that a group of Black Harvard graduates “look like gang members to me” and claims he would have said the same of white people dressed similarly. A white...

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