Gendered racism

At any moment, race, class, or gender may feel more salient or meaningful in a given person's life, but they are overlapping and cumulative in their effects on people's experiences.

[3] Research demonstrated that the coping mechanisms employed by African American women were not always beneficial because they heightened distress rather than decrease it.

Possible ways to cope with gendered racism include education, in which African American women are provided with a space to openly discuss their experiences and develop strategies to better handle situations when they are being discriminated against.

Another research experiment was conducted in order to assess how black female college students cope with gendered racial microaggressions.

[4] Microaggressions are the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership.

The collective coping strategy proved to be leaning on one's support networks in which individuals find solace through interactions with friends and family.