Ethnicity and Gender Debates: Cross-Readings of American Literature and Culture in the New Millennium

© 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited. Understanding ethnic differences in pain is important for addressing disparities in pain care. A common belief is that African Americans are hyposensitive to pain compared to Whites, but African Americans show increased pain sensitivity in clinical and laboratory settings. The neurobiological mechanisms underlying these differences are unknown. We studied an ethnicity- and gender-balanced sample of African Americans, Hispanics and non-Hispanic Whites using functional magnetic resonance imaging during thermal pain. Higher pain report in African Americans was mediated by discrimination and increased frontostriatal circuit activations associated with pain rating, discrimination, experimenter trust and extranociceptive aspects of pain elsewhere. In contrast, the neurologic pain signature, a neuromarker sensitive and specific to nociceptive pain, mediated painful heat effects on pain report largely similarly in African American and other groups. Findings identify a brain basis for higher pain in African Americans related to interpersonal context and extranociceptive central pain mechanisms and suggest that nociceptive pain processing may be similar across ethnicities.

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Goddess on the Frontier

10.11126/stanford/9780804799546.001.0001 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Megan Bryson

Keyword(s):

Twelfth Century ◽

Yunnan Province ◽

Eighth Century ◽

Religious Identities ◽

Local Identities ◽

Frontier Region ◽

And Gender ◽

Ethnicity And Gender ◽

Shifting Identities

This book follows the transformations of the goddess Baijie, a deity worshiped in the Dali region of southwest China’s Yunnan Province, to understand how local identities developed in a Chinese frontier region from the twelfth century to the twenty-first. Dali, a region where the cultures of China, India, Tibet, and Southeast Asia converge, has long served as a nexus of religious interaction even as its status has changed. Once the center of independent kingdoms, it was absorbed into the Chinese imperial sphere with the Mongol conquest and remained there ever since. Goddess on the Frontier examines how people in Dali developed regional religious identities through the lens of the local goddess Baijie, whose shifting identities over this span of time reflect shifting identities in Dali. She first appears as a Buddhist figure in the twelfth century, then becomes known as the mother of a regional ruler, next takes on the role of an eighth-century widow martyr, and finally is worshiped as a tutelary village deity. Each of her forms illustrates how people in Dali represented local identities through gendered religious symbols. Taken together, they demonstrate how regional religious identities in Dali developed as a gendered process as well as an ethno-cultural process. This book applies interdisciplinary methodology to a wide variety of newly discovered and unstudied materials to show how religion, ethnicity, and gender intersect in a frontier region.

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Goddess on the Frontier: Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Southwest China by Megan Bryson

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies ◽

10.1353/jas.2020.0008 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 80 (1) ◽

pp. 215-222

Author(s):

Donald S. Sutton

Keyword(s):

Southwest China ◽

And Gender ◽

Ethnicity And Gender

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Exploring Aging Masculinities From Different Disciplines and Perspectives

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.3014 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. 825-825

Author(s):

Liat Ayalon ◽

Josep Armengol ◽

Michael Kimmel

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

American Literature ◽

Successful Aging ◽

Older Men ◽

Contemporary American Literature ◽

The Social ◽

Aging Men ◽

Personal Experiences ◽

And Gender ◽

Types Of Information

Abstract Traditionally, gerontology research has been relatively genderless. When the intersection of age and gender was explored, this was done primarily by focusing on the experiences of older women. Much less is known about the experiences of older men. The present symposium brings together work from the humanities and the social sciences in order to explore societal images and personal experiences of aging men. The paper by Maierhofer and Ratzenböck provides a theoretical outlook on this intersection from the humanities perspective, followed by empirical applications from the social sciences. Next, Armengol uses contemporary American literature to challenge the traditional stereotype of decline in sexuality and masculinity. The paper by Ni Leime & O’Neill examines stereotypes of aging masculinities, but this time from the perspective of older men as the audience who react to their portrayal in visual culture. Finally, Ayalon and Gweyrtz-Meydan present ethical dilemmas faced by physicians who treat older men’s sexuality in light of active marketing campaigns of the pharmaceutical industry, which advocate for a model of successful aging and ongoing sexual intercourse. The discussant, Kimmel, will conceptualize the four papers by stressing the different types of information that can be obtained via different methods of inquiry. The complementary information provided by the different papers and the integration of methods and findings from the humanities with the social sciences will be discussed.

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Temporal changes in allostatic load patterns by age, race/ethnicity, and gender among the US adult population; 1988–2018

Preventive Medicine ◽

10.1016/j.ypmed.2021.106483 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 106483

Author(s):

Justin Xavier Moore ◽

Malcolm S. Bevel ◽

Stella Aslibekyan ◽

Tomi Akinyemiju

Keyword(s):

Allostatic Load ◽

Adult Population ◽

Temporal Changes ◽

The Us ◽

Race Ethnicity ◽

And Gender ◽

Ethnicity And Gender

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Does School Racial Composition Explain Why High Income Black Youth Perceive More Discrimination? A Gender Analysis

Brain Sciences ◽

10.3390/brainsci8080140 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (8) ◽

pp. 140 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

Shervin Assari

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

African American ◽

African American Males ◽

Black Youth ◽

Perceived Discrimination ◽

Poor Mental Health ◽

Racial Composition ◽

And Gender ◽

Ethnicity And Gender

Recent research has documented poor mental health among high socioeconomic status (SES) Blacks, particularly African American males. The literature has also shown a positive link between SES and perceived discrimination, suggesting that perceived discrimination may explain why high SES Black males report poor mental health. To better understand the role of contextual factors in explaining this pattern, we aimed to test whether school racial composition explains why high income Black youth perceive more discrimination. We explored these associations by ethnicity and gender. Using data from the National Survey of American Life-Adolescent supplement (NSAL-A), the current study included 810 African American and 360 Caribbean Black youth, with a mean age of 15. Ethnicity, age, gender, income-to-needs ratio (SES), skin color, school racial composition, and perceived (daily) discrimination were measured. Using Stata 15.0 (Stata Corp., College Station, TX, USA), we fitted seven structural equation models (SEMs) for data analysis in the pooled sample based on the intersection of ethnicity and gender. Considerable gender by ethnicity variations were found in the associations between SES, school racial composition, and perceived discrimination. For African American males but not African American females or Caribbean Black males or females, school racial composition fully mediated the effect of SES on perceived discrimination. The role of inter-racial contact as a mechanism for high discrimination and poor mental health of Black American adolescents may depend on their intersection of ethnicity and gender. School racial composition may be a mechanism for increased perceived discrimination among high SES African American males.

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