Microaffections and Microaffirmations

Espinal, Isabel

doi:10.4324/9781003029564-7

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“…This focus on everyday words and small acts is in line with James's conceptualization of parenting microprotections as small daily caring, supportive, and loving behaviors. A key difference, however, is that microinterventions and microaffirmations have primarily focused on adult relationships situated in school and work contexts (e.g., Espinal, 2022; Rolón‐Dow & Davison, 2021; Sue et al, 2019), whereas James's microprotections are situated within the parent–child context.…”

Section: Supportive Parenting In the Context Of Discriminationmentioning

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Parental microprotections: Testing measurement equivalence in Black, Latinx, and White families

Dotterer,

Ferguson,

Schwartz

et al. 2023

Family Relations

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ObjectiveThis study examined measurement equivalence of parental microprotections in Black, Latinx, and White families.BackgroundMicroprotections refer to the small daily caring, supportive, and loving behaviors Black parents engage in to counteract the negative effects of racism and discrimination. It is possible that this parenting practice applies to other families in which adolescents are at risk for discrimination because of social identities and/or membership in a stigmatized group (e.g., Latinx adolescents, sexual minority adolescents).MethodsParticipants were parent–adolescent dyads (N = 395) from across the United States. Adolescents were in Grades 9 through 12, and approximately one third of the families identified as Black/African American (n = 131), one third as Hispanic/Latinx (n = 132), and one third as White (n = 132).ResultsMeasurement equivalence was evaluated through a series of multigroup confirmatory factor analysis. Results showed strict measurement invariance in parent reports of parental microprotections across all three racial/ethnic groups. Adolescent reports of mothers' microprotections demonstrated strict measurement invariance and adolescent reports of fathers' microprotections achieved configural measurement invariance.ConclusionThese results support the use of the Parental Microprotections Scale in African American/Black, Hispanic/Latinx, and White families.ImplicationsParental microprotections are one way that parents can nurture hope, happiness, and health despite discrimination that adolescents may face. The Parental Microprotections Scale may be useful for family science practitioners and researchers who are interested in evaluating potential supports in adolescents and their families.

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Section: Supportive Parenting In the Context Of Discriminationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Parental microprotections: Testing measurement equivalence in Black, Latinx, and White families

Dotterer,

Ferguson,

Schwartz

et al. 2023

Family Relations

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The Lived Experience of Whiteness

Ravulo

2024

Handbook of Critical Whiteness

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Counterspace Support for BIPOC Employees Within a Holistic JEDI Library Framework

Espinal

Graham

Rios

et al. 2023

Advances in Library and Information Science

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This chapter presents a case study of how an academic library supports Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) employees with funding so these workers can find counterspaces (spaces where they can feel safe in community with other BIPOC who are navigating similar struggles while working in a predominantly white institution). Through its Inclusion, Diversity, Anti-Racism and Equity (IDARE) Committee, the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst Libraries worked to establish a fund for meeting some of the cultural and racial equity needs of library employees who are BIPOC. With a new Woman of Color Dean, the fund transformed into a funding priority and criterion that puts the needs of BIPOC employees at the center, while asking everyone in the library to undertake JEDI work and view all of their work through a JEDI lens. This chapter discusses the “Why” and the “How” of this JEDI initiative, placing it in the context of a larger holistic vision for inclusive librarianship outlined by current and former BIPOC employees and the JEDI vision of the Dean and her leadership team.

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Microaffections and Microaffirmations

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Parental microprotections: Testing measurement equivalence in Black, Latinx, and White families

Parental microprotections: Testing measurement equivalence in Black, Latinx, and White families

The Lived Experience of Whiteness

Counterspace Support for BIPOC Employees Within a Holistic JEDI Library Framework

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