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Battlegrounds: highly skilled Black African professionals on racial microaggressions at work

  • Written by Kathomi Gatwiri, Senior lecturer, Southern Cross University
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Highly skilled Black African professionals report experiences of racial microaggressions at work are common and are expressed in a variety of ways. My recent study published in the British Journal of Social Work has found workplaces can be “battlegrounds for racism”.

Microaggressions are defined as:

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