Subtle Acts of Exclusion

5Race and Ethnicity SAE

IN THE FOLLOWING FIVE CHAPTERS, we will play out some SAE scenarios that we have observed, researched, or been told about by people who have experienced these situations. There are so many varied SAE that people experience along different dimensions of diversity that the examples included represent only a small fraction of what we might have written about. The identifying details, including names and some contexts, have been redacted or changed. But the subtle acts of exclusion are real. While we cannot describe the situations in their full complexity, we offer readers a sense of the events and feelings accompanying the SAE. In addition, we describe any accountability as it was experienced. If accountability was absent, ...