Racial microaggressions are brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or
environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, de-
rogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of color. Perpetrators of
microaggressions are ofen unaware that they engage in such communications when they
interact with racial/ethnic minorities. A taxonomy of racial microaggressions in everyday life
was created through a review of the social psychological literature on aversive racism, from …