Prof claims microaggressions disprove notion of 'meritocracy'

Prof claims microaggressions disprove notion of 'meritocracy'

• An Associate Professor at the University of Rhode Island argues that microaggressions invalidate “meritocracy” and “equal-opportunity” for minorities.
• The same professor, Annemarie Vaccaro, also recently identified a brand new category of
  microaggression that doesn't even require a person to say or do anything offensive.
  
  Annemarie Vaccaro, who teaches about higher education, explained in an article published Tuesday that the experience of microaggressions “challenge[s] dominant ideologies of colorblindness, meritocracy, and equal opportunity” surrounding higher education.
  ...She maintains that “meritocracy and equal-opportunity” are ideologies that “ignore the differential treatment…experienced by individual women,” citing “microaggressions” that students of color “must overcome to be successful.”
  Vaccaro, who also invented a brand new category of “invisibility microaggressions” in another article this week, began her research after being approached by a student named Chantel, who “offered to help recruit participants for a study” that would “document pervasive and covert racism at [her college] and convey women’s concerns to the administration.”...