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Welcome to Teaching Microaggressions in Everyday Life at NCSU!

This site is dedicated to ensuring that faculty and instructors in the social sciences have high quality resources to teach undergraduate students about the unfortunate social phenomenon of microaggressions. The teaching materials (videos and lesson plans) contained in this website are the result of a year long study of microaggressions at NCSU and the collaboration of students, faculty and multiple departments on our campus.

Undergraduate students in select Sociology courses, open to all majors, contributed semester long ethnographic journals, which contained accounts of and reflections on instances of microaggressions that they witnessed and/or experienced in their daily lives as students. These journals were coded and analyzed by Maxine Thompson PhD and her team (Casey Strange MA and Holly Benton MA) and turned over to a professional writer (John Pierre Craig MFA) whose script was used to create the video tools you will find on the Videos tab. In collaboration with Arts NC State (Amy Sawyers-Williams MFA and Micheal Mellas MA), NCSU’s DELTA Video Productions (Jeff Robinson BS and Micheal Castro MA) and the wonderful student actors at NCSU, the team was able to bring these videos to life, for educational use in online and in person classes! Heather Sanchez MA helped the team turn our existing lesson plans and materials into the complete package lesson plans that you’ll find organized on the site.

Funding and In-Kind Support Provided by: NCSU OIED (Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity) , NCSU Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Arts NC State, and NC State DELTA Video Production.

Thank you for visiting and we hope that you and your students enjoy using our materials!