Comments on: “Where Are You From?” Racial Microaggressions

By: When They See Us: Through Guido Melo's eyes - Ascension

When They See Us: Through Guido Melo's eyes - Ascension — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 10:12:27 +0000

[…] there are daily microaggressions disguised as compliments directed at my children such […]

By: NO, WHERE ARE YOU RALLY FROM – FINAL – – EVERYTHINGNOTHANDO –

Mon, 17 Jun 2019 04:29:16 +0000

[…] Zevallos, D. (2017). “Where Are You From?” Racial Microaggressions. [Blog] Other Sociologist. Available at: https://othersociologist.com/2017/07/15/where-are-you-from-racial-microaggressions/ […]

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By: NO, WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM? – – EVERYTHINGNOTHANDO –

NO, WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM? – – EVERYTHINGNOTHANDO – — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 05:23:13 +0000

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By: Understanding Racism in Social Context – The Other Sociologist

Understanding Racism in Social Context – The Other Sociologist — Sun, 19 May 2019 03:11:39 +0000

[…] of racism as “less bad” than others. The negative pushback on my research about racial microagressions is a case in point. In other cases, White people have an overly optimistic idea of progress, […]

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By: Strident Women Speak up on Gender Inequity in Science – The Other Sociologist

Sun, 12 May 2019 10:14:36 +0000

[…] as the Chief Scientist requested, without taking into account ongoing structural barriers and daily microaggressions that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, plus other women of colour face to stay in […]

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By: “Where Are You From?” Racial Microaggressions – Social Science Insights

“Where Are You From?” Racial Microaggressions – Social Science Insights — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 18:17:12 +0000

[…] “Where Are You From?” Racial Microaggressions […]

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By: Interview: How to Deal with Microaggressions – The Other Sociologist

Interview: How to Deal with Microaggressions – The Other Sociologist — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 22:41:54 +0000

[…] Learn more on racial microaggressions on my blog. […]

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By: Language links 5/14 | Everyday linguistic anthropology

Language links 5/14 | Everyday linguistic anthropology — Mon, 14 May 2018 10:41:59 +0000

[…] microaggressions look pretty similar in Australia as in the US: think, “Where are you REALLY from?” And on a related topic, teachers make about 20 […]

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By: Dr Zuleyka Zevallos

Dr Zuleyka Zevallos — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 12:21:40 +0000

In reply to Mackenzie.

Hi Mackenzie. White people being misguided about other White people’s ethnicity doesn’t lead to lower life chances. It doesn’t lead to being routinely discriminated against. It doesn’t heighten the likelihood that police brutality. You being a White woman, can establish your whiteness swiftly in a conversation, but not walk away from that exchange straight into an encounter of racism and another and another. You enjoy all the benefits and protections of race, something that people of colour do not. Guido Menzio was mistaken on a flight because he has olive skin, a beard, and because ignorant people can’t recognise maths. Yet as a White man this once-off encounter does not prohibit him from having risen in his field in academia – a luxury of opportunities that talented people of colour are rarely given.

Centreing Whiteness in an article about people of colour is in itself as illustration of a racial microaggression. Rather than reflecting on how these everyday interactions of racism connect with structural discrimination (the topic of this article), you want a woman of colour to comment on your whiteness and give you a special label. Have a read of the links provided, especially on racial microaggressions, which specifically discuss how White people denigrate experiences of people of colour and what effect this has.

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By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 22:58:20 +0000

This topic always make me wonder: is there a term in sociology for the inverse of “passing”?
The reason I’m wondering is that I’m a white woman who has been asked numerous times where I’m really from, had people guess that I’m from India, and been told I look “exotic.”
Obviously, it’s the olive skin that does it. Nobody in the US today would say an Italian is anything but white, yet an Italian man was taken off a plane for doing advanced math when he was assumed to be Middle Eastern. I know another Italian-American to whom strangers say “a-salaam alaikum” pretty regularly.
And I just wonder if there’s a word for when a white person is mistaken for brown.

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