Race, race-based discrimination, and health outcomes among African Americans.
By Vickie M. Mays, Susan D. Cochran, N. Barnes. Annual Review of Psychology, 2007
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Persistent and vexing health disadvantages accrue to African Americans despite decades of work to erase the effects of race discrimination in this country. Participating in these efforts, psychologists and other social scientists have hypothesized that African Americans' continuing experiences with racism and discrimination may lie at the root of the many well-documented race-based physical health disparities that affect this population. With newly emerging methodologies in both measurement of contextual factors and functional neuroscience, an opportunity now exists to cleave together a comprehensive understanding of the ways in which discrimination has harmful effects on health. In this article, we review emerging work that locates the cause of race-based health disparities in the external effects of the contextual social space on the internal world of brain functioning and physiologic response. These approaches reflect the growing interdisciplinary nature of psychology in general, and the field of race relations in particular.
Subfields: Health, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Sociology and Political Science
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- STRUCTURAL RACISM AND HEALTH INEQUITIES (2011, background): “These associations are seen among many racial/ethnic minority populations, including African Americans (Mays et al., 2006) American Indians (Chae and Walters, 2009), Arab Americans (Padela and Heisler, 2010), Asian Americans (Gee et al.”
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- Discrimination and racial disparities in health: evidence and needed research (2008, neutral): “Limited evidence from the discrimination literature indicates that characteristics of the perpetrator can predict the degree of adverse impact with the effects being more negative when the perpetrator belongs to the same racial group as the target (Mays et al. 2007).”