Visualizing Everyday Racism: Critical Race Theory, Visual Microaggressions, and the Historical Image of Mexican Banditry

Qualitative Inquiry

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 223-238

  Pérez Huber, Lindsay ^a   Solorzano, Daniel G ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

critical race theory; Latina o studies; race ethnicity; racial microaggressions; visual microaggressions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924911202     PISSN: 10778004     EISSN: 15527565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077800414562899     Document Type: Article

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