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The influence of intergenerational trauma in families of Chinese descent on perceptions of microaggressions

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: lucy_cheng82504"Do any of you have any children?" a patient's mother asked our team during rounds.I felt a wave of personal discomfort, a reminder of my own feelings of falling short of my family's expectations."Yes," (as a foster parent) I mumbled before quickly redirecting the conversation back to the medical management of her child.It wasn't until a week later, while attending a talk on microaggressions at a national conference, that I realized my team members might have perceived the mother's question as a microaggression, suggesting that our ability to care for her child was somehow tied to whether we were parents.Why did it take me so long to recognize this?

Source: Journal of Hospital Medicine

DOI: 10.1002/jhm.70081

Authors: Lucy Cheng, Sonya Tang Girdwood

Institutions: Emory University, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati

Language: English

Topic: Racial and Ethnic Identity Research

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W4410744397

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