ABSTRACT
This chapter examines everyday experiences of racial microaggression in the lived experiences of black and mixed-race Poles of sub-Saharan African heritage living in Poland. Despite the increase in literature on racial microaggression and its impacts on people of colour, this chapter shows that racial microaggressions are often modulated as trivial and never acknowledged as being racial in Poland. This creates a gap in the understanding of race and racism in the country. To bridge this gap, the chapter draws from historical and contemporary examples of racial microaggressions in the United States and the United Kingdom where many black and minority groups are still marginalized. The chapter provides often-neglected significant empirical insight into the manifestations and implications of racial microaggressions in the everyday experiences of people of colour in Poland. Its major contribution shows an indication that critical race theory (CRT) has a significant effect beyond the Western paradigms. As the chapter would show, both racial microaggressions and CRT are effective in the analysis of the lived experiences of the racialized bodies of black and brown people in Poland.
