Resisting Prejudice Every Day: Exploring Women’s Assertive Responses to Anti-Black Racism, Anti-Semitism, Heterosexism, and Sexism

By Lauri Hyers. 2007

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Allies against Sexism: The Role of Men in Confronting Sexism (2014, background): “Specifically, the more men recognized that society is biased toward supporting a patriarchy, the more incidents of sexism they reported (see also Hyers, 2007).”
Gendered Racism, Coping, Identity Centrality, and African American College Women’s Psychological Distress (2016, background): “…and beliefs) and costs (e.g., increasing interpersonal conflict, being confronted with a lack of institutional support for formal complaints, futility associated with trying to modify experiences that are often uncontrollable and chronic; Hyers, 2007; Noh, Beiser, Kasper, Hou, & Rummens, 1999).”
Coping With Racism: A Selective Review of the Literature and a Theoretical and Methodological Critique (2009, background): “A recent diary study by Hyers (2007) examined costs and benefits associated with confrontation coping, although no measure was made of depression or health.”
The Confronting Prejudiced Responses (CPR) Model: Applying CPR in Organizations (2008, background): “In addition, people may have different goals for confronting, from changing perpetrators' behavior to standing up for values they hold dear (Hyers, 2007).”
When Do We Confront? Perceptions of Costs and Benefits Predict Confronting Discrimination on Behalf of the Self and Others (2012, background): “For targets, confronting has been associated with greater feelings of empowerment and closure, as well as less anger and regret (Haslett & Lipman, 1997; Hyers, 2007).”
Bystander anti-racism : a review of the literature (2011, background): “Sources: (Aboud & Joong, 2008; Ashburn-Nardo et al., 2008; Howley & Pedersen, 2006; Hyers, 2007; Levine et al., 2005; Saucier et al., 2005; Stocks et al., 2009; Wellman et al., 2009; Witenberg, 2004, 2007).”
The psychological sting of stigma: The costs of attributing ostracism to racism (2010, background): “Members of stigmatized groups experience events they would attribute to prejudice frequently (Hyers, 2007; Swim, Hyers, Cohen, Fitzgerald, & Bylsma, 2003), underscoring greater experience with social rejection.”
Rural location and exposure to minority stress among sexual minorities in the United States (2012, background): “Moreover, the survival of discrimination, when combined with other key interpretative schemas, can push LGB individuals into greater amounts of political activism for LGB rights (Hyers, 2007; Jennings & Andersen, 2003; Swank & Fahs, 2011; Taylor, Kimport, Van Dyke, & Andersen, 2009).”
The Handbook of Communication Skills (2018, background): “…compared to women who react passively, those who assert in response to prejudice are likely to be more satisfied with their response and achieve greater closure, as all asserters felt no further action was needed, whereas 78% of those who reacted passively viewed the issue as closed (Hyers, 2007).”