Individualized micro-aggression narratives stay unpoliticized without collective infrastructure to connect them.
Evidence
Pasha’s comments suggest that Iranian American youth each hold different pieces of a larger narrative of travel but that they lack the collective infrastructure and political access to do anything about it. He intuits that these stories do not reduce to a series of highly personalized micro-aggressions but encompass and reveal broader patterns. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 416
Categorization
- XREF: Parallels the Snowden-era debate on systemic vs. individual harms, and echoes the Milgrom institutional-analysis framing: information and infrastructure gaps keep patterns latent. — connects to: The millennial left faced organizing without the mediating institutions that once welded its coalition — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 157