micropolitical

English[edit]

micropolitical (comparative more micropolitical, superlative most micropolitical)

Of or pertaining to micropolitics.
- 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 42:
  Blacks may have invented and used the term poor white trash as an act of symbolic violence and micropolitical protest, but it was literate, middle-class and elite whites who invested its meaning with social power, granting it the powers of social stigma and prejudice and enforcing the discriminatory effects with regard to labor.