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Microaggressions, Multiculturalism, and Gifted Individuals Who Are Black, Hispanic, or Low Income
Author(s) -
Stambaugh Tamra,
Ford Donna Y.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.2015.00195.x
Subject(s) - multiculturalism , psychology , context (archaeology) , gifted education , low income , multicultural education , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , pedagogy , sociology , paleontology , socioeconomics , biology
The authors hypothesize that gifted individuals are subject to microaggressions based on their unique characteristics. These microaggressions are perpetuated when gifted individuals are also Black, Hispanic, or low income. Research from the field of gifted education is combined with the counseling and psychology literature to explore the common assumptions that may lead to microaggressions. Multicultural considerations for counseling are discussed through the context of giftedness. Recommendations for counseling culturally different and low‐income gifted students are presented.