implications for research and policy

Question 1

what does future research need to examine?

Answer 1

levels, timing, and accumulation of experiences of racial bias over the life course, combine toxic stressors, to influence the onset and course of illness

Question 2

racism

Answer 2

a system of structuring opportunity and assigning value based on the social interpretation of how we look

Question 3

ethnicity

Answer 3

group of individuals who share common beliefs

Question 4

institutionalized racism

Answer 4

differential access to the goods, services and opportunities of society by race
- inherited disadvantage, institutionalized in norms, customs and laws

Question 5

what can institutionalized racism be through?

Answer 5

acts of commission or acts of omission, and often manifested as inaction in the face of need

Question 6

institutionalized racism examples

Answer 6

• education
• housing
• job opportunities
• health care access
• inequality

Question 7

personally-mediated racism

Answer 7

differential assumptions about the abilities, motives, and intents of others by race (prejudice) and differential actions based on those assumptions (discrimination)

Question 8

what form of racism is most aware?

Answer 8

personally mediated racism, “everyday racism”

Question 9

implicit bias

Answer 9

automatic reaction we have towards other people

Question 10

manifestations

Answer 10

• lack of respect
• suspicion
• devaluation
• scapegoating (wrongful place of blame)
• dehumanization (police brutality)

Question 11

internalized racism

Answer 11

acceptance by members of the stigmatized races of negative messages about their own abilities and intrinsic worth