Cumulative micro-aggressions compound into vulnerability to structural violence

Evidence

While much of recent accounts about racial matters – in the US especially – have focused on these latter microexpressions, they are disturbing as much because of their cumulative effects to debilitate and render unwelcome their racially conceived objects, to extend their exclusion, and to heighten the likelihood of foreshortened lives as they are outrageous in themselves. In short, accumulated everyday racisms dispose their object populations, exposing them to extended abjection, rendering them readier, more vulnerable targets of legitimated violence and ultimately unnoticed or overlooked death. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 143

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Everyday microaggressions cumulatively make targets more vulnerable to lethal violence — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 143; Slow violence differs from structural violence in foregrounding time and change — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 39; Low-coordination scattered violence can cause more damage than organized violence — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 733 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Everyday microaggressions cumulatively make targets more vulnerable to lethal violence #corroborates (1.00) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 143
• Slow violence differs from structural violence in foregrounding time and change #qualifies (0.70) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 39