Racial microaggressions are an insidious form of racism with devastating mental-health outcomes, but the concept has not been embraced by all scholars. This article provides an overview of new scholarship on racial microaggressions from an array of diverse scholars in psychology, education, and philosophy, with a focus on new ways to define, conceptualize, and categorize racial microaggressions. Racism, along with its many forms and manifestations, is defined and clarified, drawing attention to the linkages between racial microaggressions and systemic racism. Importantly, the developmental entry points leading to the inception of racial bias in children are discussed. Theoretical issues are explored, including the measurement of intersectional microaggressions and the power dynamics underpinning arguments designed to discredit the nature of racial microaggressions. Also described are the very real harms caused by racial microaggressions, with new frameworks for measurement and intervention. These articles reorient the field to this pertinent and pervasive problem and pave the way for action-based responses and interventions. The next step in the research must be to develop interventions to remedy the harms caused by microaggressions on victims. Further, psychology must make a fervent effort to root out racism that prevents scholarship on these topics from advancing.

种族微侵犯是一种阴险的种族主义形式，会对心理健康造成毁灭性的后果，但这一概念尚未得到所有学者的认可。本文概述了心理学、教育学和哲学领域的众多不同学者关于种族微侵犯的新学术成果，重点是定义、概念化和分类种族微侵犯的新方法。种族主义及其多种形式和表现得到了定义和澄清，引起人们对种族微侵犯和系统性种族主义之间联系的关注。重要的是，讨论了导致儿童种族偏见开始的发展切入点。探讨了理论问题，包括交叉微侵略的衡量以及旨在质疑种族微侵略本质的论点的权力动态。还描述了种族微侵犯造成的非常真实的伤害，以及新的衡量和干预框架。这些文章重新定位了这一相关且普遍存在的问题，并为基于行动的应对和干预措施铺平了道路。研究的下一步必须是制定干预措施，以弥补微侵犯对受害者造成的伤害。此外，心理学必须积极努力根除阻碍这些主题的学术进步的种族主义。