If a white woman immediately clutches her purse tightly and moves to the edge of the sidewalk because she sees two black men walking towards her, this is an example of
a. displacement
b. public distance
c. social distance
d. micro insults (agression)
e. intimate distance
Answer is d. micro insults (agression) Verbal and nonverbal communications that subtly convey rudeness and insensitivity and demean a person's racial heritage or identity. This can be mixed with social distance where social distance is a measure of social separation between groups caused by perceived or real differences between groups of people as defined by well-known social categories. Examples of micro insulting include having the police pull over black male drivers for no apparent reason; black security guards following black men in stores to deflect charges of racial profiling; and women clutching their purses when they see a black man because they assume he's a thief.
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