UCLA School of Education and Information Studies

In a time where there are various representations of race in the United States, many ethnic minority groups still face a number of challenges that are related to the color of their skin, socioeconomic status, national status, and gender.  These challenges are referred to as microaggressions.  Solorzano & Perez Huber (2012) discusses racial microaggressions specifically as, “one form of systemic everyday racism used to keep those at the racial margins in their place” (p.1489). In this paper, we use Critical Race Theory as a tool and a framework to examine a few different forms of microaggressions, mainly racial microaggressions, from different ethnic groups.  We recognize microaggressions continue to exist in our society. Furthermore, we acknowledge that transformational resistance begins when we identify these various forms of microaggressions.