2.  What was the instance where you first became aware of race?

3.  Microaggressions  Everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership

4.  Theme 1  Alien in own land  When Asian Americans and Latino Americans are assumed to be foreign-born

5.  Theme 3  Color blindness  Statements that indicate that a White person does not want to acknowledge race

6.  Theme 4  Criminality  A person of color is presumed to be dangerous, criminal, or deviant on the basis of their race

7.  Theme 5  Myth of meritocracy  Statements which assert that race does not play a role in life successes

8.  Theme 6  Pathologizing cultural values  The notion that the values and communication styles of the dominant/White culture are ideal

9.  Theme 7  Second-class citizen  Occurs when a White person is given preferential treatment over a person of color

10.  Theme 8  Environmental microaggressions  Systematic microaggression (overcrowding in schools in communities of color, overabundance of liquor stores in communities of color)

11.  Theme 9  How to offend without really trying  “That’s so gay”  “Indian giver”  “I jewed him down”  “You people”  “We got gypped”  Imitating accents or dialects