STRUCTURAL RACISM AND HEALTH INEQUITIES
By G. Gee, C. Ford. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 2011
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Abstract Racial minorities bear a disproportionate burden of morbidity and mortality. These inequities might be explained by racism, given the fact that racism has restricted the lives of racial minorities and immigrants throughout history. Recent studies have documented that individuals who report experiencing racism have greater rates of illnesses. While this body of research has been invaluable in advancing knowledge on health inequities, it still locates the experiences of racism at the individual level. Yet, the health of social groups is likely most strongly affected by structural, rather than individual, phenomena. The structural forms of racism and their relationship to health inequities remain under-studied. This article reviews several ways of conceptualizing structural racism, with a focus on social segregation, immigration policy, and intergenerational effects. Studies of disparities should more seriously consider the multiple dimensions of structural racism as fundamental causes of health disparities.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Health, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- The Bias of Crowds: How Implicit Bias Bridges Personal and Systemic Prejudice (2017, neutral): “…content analyses of media portrayals of social groups, and many other metrics (Cole & Farrell, 2006; Fryberg, Markus, Oyserman, & Stone, 2008; Gee & Ford, 2011; LaVeist, 1989; Lukachko, Hatzenbuehler, & Keyes, 2014; Mandel & Semyonov, 2005; C. D. Smith, 2009; van Dijk, 1989; Williams &…”
- Racism and Health I: Pathways and Scientific Evidence (2013, background): “Immigration policy in the U.S., historically and currently, has been another form of institutional racism (Gee & Ford, 2011).”
- LGBTQ+ Latino/a Young People’s Interpretations of Stigma and Mental Health: An Intersectional Minority Stress Perspective (2020, background): “First, young people often had to navigate psychological stressors tied to experiences of structural racism, defined broadly as the social systems (i.e., ideologies, health care, and workplace) that reinforce racial/ethnic inequities (Gee and Ford 2011).”