scholarly journals The impact of anticipated, vicarious, and experienced racial and ethnic discrimination on depression and suicidal behavior among Chicago youth

2021 ◽  
pp. 102623
Author(s):  
Gregory M. Zimmerman ◽  
Ayanna Miller-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
The Impact

Does Racism Discriminate? Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Among Nigerians and Jamaicans in Houston Texas

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (8) ◽  
pp. 884-911
Author(s):  
Caralee Jones-Obeng
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
Black Immigrants ◽  
Racial Hierarchy ◽  
Black Immigrant ◽  
Caribbean Population ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Scholarly Inquiry ◽  
The U.S

As a result of more racially inclusive immigration policies in the U.S., the African and Caribbean population has increased. Thus far, scholarly inquiry on Black immigrants have focused on their incorporation into the racial hierarchy, their experiences with racism, and their relationships with African Americans. While beneficial, these studies overlook the impact of ethnic discrimination for Black immigrants. Although all individuals of African descent share similar racialized experiences in the U.S., I hypothesize that diverse Black immigrant groups endure unique discriminatory experiences because of their ethnic identities. Thus, through in-depth interviews with 27 Nigerian and 20 Jamaican respondents, this paper explores Black immigrants’ experiences with racial and ethnic discrimination. I found that, regardless of ethnic background, 80% of my Nigerian and Jamaican respondents encountered racism. In contrast, ethnic discrimination varied between my Nigerian and Jamaican respondents. My Nigerian respondents were more likely to report their encounters with ethnic discrimination. These experiences ranged from being accused of internet scamming to being mocked for having an accent. On the other hand, not only were my Jamaican respondents less likely to report ethnic discrimination, but they were also more likely to see their ethnicity as an advantage.

Family Life and Racial and Ethnic Diversity

1995 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 246-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
GIDEON SJOBERG ◽  
NORMA WILLIAMS ◽  
ELIZABETH GILL ◽  
KELLY F. HIMMEL
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
Multinational Organizations ◽  
Family Issues ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the debates among communitarians, liberals, and conservatives regarding contemporary family issues and critically evaluates these perspectives. Current orientations inadequately address the impact of large-scale bureaucratic organizations on family life and do not confront problems relating to racial and ethnic discrimination. The implications of the authors' perspective are brought to the fore when discussing education and the criminal justice system. The authors conclude that students of family relations need to consider larger issues associated with democratic theory, particularly as these relate to racial and ethnic diversity and to the manner in which multinational organizations are eroding family life.

scholarly journals The Racialized Pandemic: Wave One of COVID-19 and the Reproduction of Global North Inequalities

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Gerda Hooijer ◽  
Desmond King
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Majority Population ◽  
White Majority ◽  
Global North ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
The Impact

We document the broad patterns of COVID-19 as it affects minority communities. We present a theoretical framework rooted in Global North democracies’ racial and ethnic legacies to analyze the health and economic disparities between these communities and the white majority population. Marshalling first-cut empirical evidence from the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Sweden, we find patterns of the pandemic’s distribution consistent with how the burden of racial and ethnic legacies endures: people from minority communities have worse health and economic outcomes under normal circumstances, inequalities the COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated. The comparison shows that the impact of racial and ethnic discrimination on pandemic policy outcomes is not unique to the United States. Health inequalities stemming in part from patterns of institutional racism and discrimination perversely help reproduce these societal inequities. We find that governments’ initial responses have failed to mitigate the disproportionate impact of this health and economic crisis on minority communities because they did not acknowledge or address the particular challenges that these groups face.

Stress, Cortisol and Suicide Risk

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daryl Brian O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Stressful Events ◽  
Additional Risk ◽  
Global Health Issue ◽  
History Of ◽  
Hpa Axis Activity ◽  
The Impact

Suicide is a global health issue accounting for at least 800,000 deaths per annum. Numerous models have been proposed that differ in their emphasis on the role of psychological, social, psychiatric and neurobiological factors in explaining suicide risk. Central to many models is a stress-diathesis component which states that suicidal behavior is the result of an interaction between acutely stressful events and a susceptibility to suicidal behavior (a diathesis). This article presents an overview of studies that demonstrate that stress and dysregulated hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity, as measured by cortisol levels, are important additional risk factors for suicide. Evidence for other putative stress-related suicide risk factors including childhood trauma, impaired executive function, impulsivity and disrupted sleep are considered together with the impact of family history of suicide, perinatal and epigenetic influences on suicide risk.

Racial and Ethnic Discrimination

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Eleanor K. Seaton ◽  
Tiffany Yip ◽  
Sara Douglass
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Discrimination

Fighting Poverty in the United States

2020 ◽  
pp. 73-103
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
Immigration Status ◽  
United State ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poverty Measures ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
Contemporary United States

A major thread that runs through the fight against poverty in the United States is its connection between the history, values, and beliefs and interventions designed to combat poverty. Certain factors determine the characteristics of poverty in the United State of America: racial and ethnic discrimination, age, gender, residence, employment, inter-generational mobility, and immigration status. This chapter, therefore, seeks to examine the historical implications to poverty, the values and beliefs about poverty and the poor, legislative interventions, conceptual clarifications and poverty measures, realities of poverty in the contemporary United States, and potential policy solutions.

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