Social Justice Student’s NameInstitutional AffiliationSocial JusticeIntroductionIn the contemporary days, social justice has become an imperative area of study due to its application in the dynamic and globalized world characterized by the ever changing human social behavior ADDIN CSL_CITATION {"citationItems":[{"id":"ITEM-1","itemData":{"DOI":"10.1037/0003-066X.62.4.271","ISBN":"0003-066X (Print) 0003-066X (Linking)","ISSN":"0003066X","PMID":"17516773","abstract":"Racial microaggressions are brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, de-rogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of color. Perpetrators of microaggressions are often unaware that they engage in such communications when they interact with racial/ethnic minorities. A taxonomy of racial microaggressions in everyday life was created through a review of the social psychological literature on aversive racism, from formulations regarding the manifes-tation and impact of everyday racism, and from reading numerous personal narratives of counselors (both White and those of color) on their racial/cultural awakening. Microaggressions seem to appear in three forms: microas-sault, microinsult, and microinvalidation. Almost all inter-racial encounters are prone to microaggressions; this ar-ticle uses the White counselor – client of color counseling dyad to illustrate how they impair the development of a therapeutic alliance. Suggestions regarding education and training and research in