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JOURNAL OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
Volume 59, Issue 4, Pages 466-485Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0022146518814251
Keywords
mental disorders; mental health; race; racial discrimination; racism; stress
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- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) of the National Institutes of Health [R01 MD009719]
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This article provides an overview of research on race-related stressors that can affect the mental health of socially disadvantaged racial and ethnic populations. It begins by reviewing the research on self-reported discrimination and mental health. Although discrimination is the most studied aspect of racism, racism can also affect mental health through structural/institutional mechanisms and racism that is deeply embedded in the larger culture. Key priorities for research include more systematic attention to stress proliferation processes due to institutional racism, the assessment of stressful experiences linked to natural or manmade environmental crises, documenting and understanding the health effects of hostility against immigrants and people of color, cataloguing and quantifying protective resources, and enhancing our understanding of the complex association between physical and mental health.
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