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Racial Microaggressions Theory Analysis

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The Latina/o students’ Coping with Racial Microaggressions theory is a theory grounded on participants’ experiences of racial microaggressions at a Hispanic Serving Institution. The theory is congruent with Lazarus and Folkman’s (1984) Transactional Model of Stress and Coping, due to the importance of appraisal in the context of coping with discrimination. Lazarus and Folkman noted that when encountered with a stressful event, individuals engage in primary and secondary appraisals of the event, and eventually engage in problem focused and emotion focused coping strategies. However, discrepant from Lazarus and Folkman’s model, the key component of the current theory is the extreme importance of context in the experience of discrimination and

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