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Intended Changes to Race (Human Classification) Article
This excerpt is from an article titled Race (Human Classification) Things i would like to improved on: At its current state there are some awkward areas that require rewording. I have noticed that this is an extremely long sentence and it requires some work on the punctuation.

Racial Microaggressions


Racial microaggressions can be defined as commonplace verbal, behavioral, or environmental forms of disrespect,that communicate hostile, derogatory or negative racial slights and insults toward people of color. In addition to this researchers state that people who partake in microaggressions are often unaware that they engage in such communications when interacting with racial mindorities. Microaggressions are systematic, forms of racism expressed as verbal or non-verbal assaults, carried out in subtle automatic or unconscious ways. Social scientists[who?] have described microaggressions as "the new face of racism," saying that the nature of racism has shifted over time from overt expressions of racial hatred and hate crimes, towards expressions of aversive racism, such as microaggressions, that are more subtle, ambiguous and often unintentional. Researchers say this has led some Americans to wrongly believe that racism is no longer a problem for non-white Americans[8]

Studies show that a wide variety of people in the United States report an experience with racial microaggressions, including Latino American, African American, European American, and Asian American people. Racial microaggressions are not limited by class or circumstance, and can be experienced by college students and upper-middle class professionals. For example, white students and professors seeming surprised when an African-American student makes a particularly insightful or intelligent comment in class,[18] and Asian students being pathologized or penalized as too passive or quiet.[9] One famous example of a race-related microaggression happened when during the 2008 US democratic presidential primaries Joe Biden described Barack Obama as "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." Sue wrote that while on the surface Biden's comment sounded like praise, the message heard by African-Americans was "Obama is an exception. Most Blacks are unintelligent, inarticulate, dirty and unattractive."[6]