Research on microaggressions and their impact assesses neither microaggressions nor their impact

We critically evaluate common claims about microaggressions. Most studies address perceptions of microaggressions, not microaggressions per se. Moreover, despite claims to the contrary, research has not established that racism causes microaggressions nor that microaggressions adversely affect the well-being of those who perceive the. Accordingly, after 50 years of scholarship on microaggressions, the central claims of proponents remain unsubstantiated.