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Racial Microaggressions: What They Are, What They Are Not, and Why They Matter. Latino Policy & Issues Brief. Number 30.

Recently, microaggressions have been characterized as a form of “hypersensitivity” (Gitlin 2015) that threatens “academic freedom” and the sharing of political views (Volokh 2015). In June 2015, the Los Angeles Times editorialized on these viewpoints in “What’s a Microaggression?” when it claimed that training University of California faculty about racial microaggressions “discourages faculty members from expressing legitimate political opinions.” To respond to this criticism, we explain what microaggressions are, what they are not, and why they matter.