The urgency of the Black Lives Matter movement, and societal inequities emerging amid the COVID-19 pandemic call researchers to better understand the implications of racism in the lives of People of Color. In this paper, we utilize Critical Race Theory (CRT) to extend theorizing on the concept of racial microaffirmations as a response to everyday systemic racism—racial microaggressions. We reframe the psychological concept of risk and protective factors to illustrate the relationship between racial microaggressions and microaffirmations. Our findings identify types of racial microaffirmations experienced by Students of Color at a public four-year institution in California. We explore how these microaffirmations are experienced and the effects they have on the students well-being.

“黑人的命也是命”运动的紧迫性以及 COVID-19 大流行期间出现的社会不平等要求研究人员更好地了解种族主义对有色人种生活的影响。在本文中，我们利用批判种族理论 (CRT) 将种族微肯定的概念扩展为对日常系统性种族主义——种族微侵略的回应。我们重新定义了风险和保护因素的心理概念，以说明种族微侵略和微肯定之间的关系。我们的研究结果确定了有色人种学生在加州一所公立四年制大学所经历的种族微观肯定类型。我们探索如何体验这些微观肯定以及它们对学生福祉的影响。