Racial Microaggressions, Whiteness, and Feminist Therapy

Women and Therapy

Volumn 38, Issue 3-4, 2015, Pages 308-326

  Mazzula, Silvia L ^a   Nadal, Kevin L ^a  

^a JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE   (United States)

Author keywords

discrimination; ethnicity; microaggressions; racism; therapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940647593     PISSN: 02703149     EISSN: 15410315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2015.1059214     Document Type: Article

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