‘Yes, I’m taking care of you right now. It’s exhausting.’ How microaggressions affect health
On the night of Dr. Roberto Montenegro’s dissertation defense celebration, he was at a fancy restaurant and feeling on top of the world — until a woman bypassed the valet stand and handed him her keys.
She assumed that, because he was Latino, he was there to park her car.
Montenegro researches the effect of that kind of racial microtrauma on physiology and health. He sat down with The Record’s host Bill Radke for the first of two conversations discussing his findings.
Related: Roberto Montenegro's second interview with KUOW on microaggressions, Dec. 11, 2017.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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