Regularly experiencing racial discrimination can lead to health problems that detract from a person's quality of life. CornellBCTR explains how it works.
breaks down types of racism in our society and explains the health implications of each.
A lead researcher in the field is Anthony Ong, a professor of human development in Cornell University’s College of Human Ecology.
Ultimately, participants who reported experiencing more discrimination were in poorer health. Ong argues that’s because experiencing discrimination on a regular basis, even small instances of daily mistreatment, can lead to “wear-and-tear” on the body over time. “Our findings suggest that coping with chronic experiences of day-to-day mistreatment and discrimination can elicit a cascade of responses that over time ‘weather’ or damage the physiological systems that regulate the body’s stress response,” he said.
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