Furthermore, researchers argue that racial microaggressions may have more deleterious mental health consequences than overt discrimination (Yosso, Smith, Ceja, & Solórzano, 2009). However, there is a dearth of research examining the experience and emotional consequences of racial microaggressions among Latina/os and Latina/o college students. There are even fewer studies that have examined the mechanisms by which racial microaggressions affect emotional well-being among Latina/os. In addition, not enough is known about how people of color cope with racial microaggressions (Nadal et al., 2014) and there have been very few empirical studies that have investigated coping mechanisms used by Latina/os (Villegas-Gold & Yoo, 2014).
