Week 3

Question 1

What kind of problem is racism and why

Answer 1

a systemic problem bc it consists of structure, policies, and norms that assign value and determine opportunities based on looks and colour

Question 2

What is racism in terms of health

Answer 2

fundamental driver of health disparities

Question 3

what can racism lead to

Answer 3

poorer health outcomes like mental and physical

Question 4

what are the 2 types of racism and how do they affect people

Answer 4

interpersonal and structural racism

both of these have a neg affect on physical and mental health

prevents them from having the chance to have the highest level of health therefore affecting communities and globally

Question 5

Who was Clyde murphy

Answer 5

a black man from the class of 1970 from Yale

Question 6

When and how did Clyde die

Answer 6

at the age of 62 in 2010, Clyde died from a blood clot in his lung

Question 7

What was the trend with Clyde’s death

Answer 7

his experience of death was not unique bc many of his black classmates from Yale also died young

Question 8

What was the death rate of the grad class from Yale of 1970

Answer 8

they had 3x higher death rate than the avg member

Question 9

how often do black babies die prematurely

Answer 9

every 7 mins in the USA

Question 10

How many black people die every day

Answer 10

over 200 black ppl die everyday

Question 11

How could these black people not die

Answer 11

if the health for black and white people was equal

Question 12

Whites who are…

Answer 12

high school drop outs still live 3.4 years longer than their black counterparts

white people with a high school diploma live longer than a black with a uni degree

Question 13

What gap is even larger between blacks and whites

Answer 13

even larger racial gap

Question 14

can we measure racism

Answer 14

yes bc if we can measure self esteem you can measure racism

Question 15

What is the first scale Dr.Williams talks about

Answer 15

the first scale captured major experiences of discrimination
eg: being unfairly fired or unfairly stopped by the police

Question 16

What is the second scale Dr.Williams talks about

Answer 16

it’s called the everyday discrimination scale and it was made bc discrimination occurs in minor and subtle experiences

Question 17

What does the second scale of Dr.Williams capture

Answer 17

captures 9 items, like:

• treated with less courtesy than others
• receive poorer service than others in restaurants or stores
• people act as if they’re afraid of you

captures in ways which the dignity and respect of people who society value is chipped away on a daily basis

Question 18

higher levels of discrimination are associated with…

Answer 18

the elevated risk of a broad range of diseases

ie. blood pressure, breast cancer, abdominal obesity, heart disease and premature mortality.

Question 19

higher levels of discrimination of in teens (black I think) had..

Answer 19

higher levels of stress hormones, of blood pressure and weight at age 20

Question 20

what did the 1999 committee thingy tell

Answer 20

black people and other minorities receive poorer quality care than whites

this was true for all kinds of medical treatment: simple to hard

Question 21

What was the term dr David introduced

Answer 21

implicit bias or unconscious discrimination

Question 22

what is implicit bias/unconscious discrimination

Answer 22

if you hold a negative stereotype about a group in our subconscious mind, and you meet someone from that the you will discriminate against that person

Question 23

what kind of process if implicit bias/unconscious bias

Answer 23

unconscious and automatic process

and it happens to the people with the most well intended mindset

Question 24

what is institutional discrimination

Answer 24

this is discrimination that exists in the processes of social institutions

Question 25

what is an example of institutional racism

Answer 25

residential segregation by race:
this led blacks and whites living in very different neighbourhood contexts

Question 26

what is America’s best kept secret

Answer 26

how residential segregation is the secret source that creates racial inequality in the USA

Question 27

What does where you live in America determine

Answer 27

access to oppts in education, in employment, housing, medical care

Question 28

how much money did black people earn for every dollar white people earned in USA of 1978

Answer 28

black people earned 59 cents and it is still the same in 2015

Question 29

for every dollar of wealth that whites have…

Answer 29

blacks have 6 cents and latinos have 7 cents

Question 30

What would happen if you can eliminate statistically residential segregation

Answer 30

you would completely erase black white differences in income, education and unemployment and reduce black white differences in single motherhood by2/3

Question 31

the negative stereotypes and images of blacks in our culture….

Answer 31

create and sustain both institutional and individual discrimination

Question 32

what words come up when we think of blacks

Answer 32

poor
violent
lazy
religious
cheerful
dangerous

Question 33

what words come up when we think of whites

Answer 33

wealthy
progressive
conventional
stubborn
successful
educated

Question 34

race doesnt have to be a…

Answer 34

determinant of your destiny

Question 35

what is racism producing

Answer 35

a truly rigged system that is systematically disadvantaging some racial groups in USA

Question 36

what are implicit biases

Answer 36

thought processes that happen without even knowing it

Question 37

are implicit biases, mental shortcuts that you always agree with?

Answer 37

no they are mental shortcuts that you may not agree with

Question 38

what are these shortcuts for implicit biased sometimes based on

Answer 38

race

Question 39

what does implicit bias come out of

Answer 39

ordinary mental functioning

Question 40

how does the video peanut butter jelly contribute to implicit bias

Answer 40

bc it talks about how implicit bias develops from grwoing and the influences around us like media, news etc

for eg, we always know peanut butter jelly go together which is our implicit bias