Since the 1980s, everyday racism has gained ground within the social sciences. However, the theory of everyday racism has not been properly adopted and, consequently, varies across different research fields. The main goal of this study is to improve the scientific rigor within research on everyday racism in the human and social sciences. Following a review of the ground-breaking work of Philomena Essed, three main components in everyday racism literature are theoretically distilled and conceptualized: (1) repetitiveness and familiarity, (2) racism and (3) the interdependent link between micro-interactions and macro-structures. This is followed by a critical assessment of what everyday racism means and how it is assessed in research today, by performing a systematic electronic review of qualitative-methods papers. We make three suggestions towards a more complete and sophisticated understanding of everyday racism. Firstly, the concepts of everyday racism and microaggressions need to be disconnected from each other. Secondly, research should focus more on the symbiotic relation between micro-interactions and macro-structures and should also identify relevant situational features at the spatial meso-level. Lastly, it is important to be cautious of the pitfall of cultural determinism that is still a popular perspective in today’s field of (everyday) racism.

自 1980 年代以来，日常种族主义已在社会科学领域占据一席之地。然而，日常种族主义的理论并没有被正确采用，因此在不同的研究领域有所不同。本研究的主要目标是提高人文和社会科学中日常种族主义研究的科学严谨性。在回顾 Philomena Essed 的开创性工作之后，日常种族主义文学的三个主要组成部分在理论上被提炼和概念化：（1）重复性和熟悉性，（2）种族主义和（3）微观互动和宏观之间的相互依赖的联系-结构。接下来是对日常种族主义的含义和方式的批判性评估在今天的研究中，通过对定性方法论文进行系统的电子审查来评估它。我们提出三点建议，以更全面、更深入地了解日常种族主义。首先，日常种族主义和微侵略的概念需要相互分离。其次，研究应更多​​地关注微观相互作用与宏观结构之间的共生关系，并应在空间中观层面识别相关的情境特征。最后，重要的是要警惕文化决定论的陷阱，文化决定论仍然是当今（日常）种族主义领域的流行观点。