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Calhoun also said that racial discrimination can be harmful for pregnant Black women and can result in low birth weights for infants, which puts babies more at risk for developing mental health ...
It has been argued that while actual racism continues to harm health, fear of racism, due to historical precedents, can cause minority populations to avoid seeking medical help. For example, a 2003 study found that a large percentage of respondents perceived discrimination targeted at African American women in the area of reproductive health ...
In a 1968 article published in Disadvantaged Child, Jensen questioned the effectiveness of child development and antipoverty programs, writing: "As a social policy, avoidance of the issue could be harmful to everyone in the long run, especially to future generations of Negroes, who could suffer the most from well-meaning but misguided and ...
The experience opened Uché’s eyes to the many ways systemic racism plays a critical (and often fatal) role in the lives of Black Americans. "Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in ...
Understanding environmental racism is important. Here, we're breaking down causes, examples and how to fight it. Understanding Environmental Racism and How It Can Make People Sick
The manner in which racism is discussed in news coverage can also contribute to the "debatability" [48] or "plausible deniability" [49] of racism. Currently, overt forms of racism are looked down upon in greater society, so criticizing minority groups usually happens within coded language and actions that can be denied to be truly racist. [49]
The first is the argument that a belief in fundamental cultural differences between human groups can lead to the same harmful acts as a belief in fundamental biological differences, namely exploitation and oppression or exclusion and extermination. [19]
Racial trauma can also be caused by both experiences of overt racism and covert racism. Overt racism describes instances of racism that occur on a person-to-person basis; it is the form of racism that people are more used to labeling as “racist” (e.g., one person yells racial slurs at another person).