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MULTIPLE PATHWAYS LINKING RACISM TO HEALTH OUTCOMES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2011

Camara Jules P. Harrell ,
Tanisha I. Burford ,
Brandi N. Cage ,
Travette McNair Nelson ,
Sheronda Shearon ,
Adrian Thompson  and
Steven Green
Camara Jules P. Harrell*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Howard University
Tanisha I. Burford
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh
Brandi N. Cage
Affiliation:
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin
Travette McNair Nelson
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Howard University
Sheronda Shearon
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Howard University
Adrian Thompson
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Howard University
Steven Green
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Howard University
*
Camara Jules P. Harrell, Department of Psychology, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

This commentary discusses advances in the conceptual understanding of racism and selected research findings in the social neurosciences. The traditional stress and coping model holds that racism constitutes a source of aversive experiences that, when perceived by the individual, eventually lead to poor health outcomes. Current evidence points to additional psychophysiological pathways linking facets of racist environments with physiological reactions that contribute to disease. The alternative pathways emphasize prenatal experiences, subcortical emotional neural circuits, conscious and preconscious emotion regulation, perseverative cognitions, and negative affective states stemming from racist cognitive schemata. Recognition of these pathways challenges change agents to use an array of cognitive and self-controlling interventions in mitigating racism's impact. Additionally, it charges policy makers to develop strategies that eliminate deep-seated structural aspects of racism in society.

Keywords

RacismHealth DisparitiesBehavioral InterventionsPsychosocial Stress
Type
Unpacking Racism and its Health Consequences
Information
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 8 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Racial Inequality and Health , Spring 2011 , pp. 143 - 157
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Copyright © W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research 2011

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