Adult racism exposure damages the health of children.
Evidence
These findings show that racial discrimination that adults experience harms not only their health, but that of others close to them, including their children. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 330
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Islamophobia operates as a health harm alongside other racisms. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 311; Racism harms health through internalization, physiological stress, and direct violence. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 318; Racial discrimination causally damages mental and physical health. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 321 (+8 more)
Related
- Vicarious exposure to racism harms children’s socio-emotional development (similarity 0.89)
- Racism harms health through internalization, physiological stress, and direct violence. (similarity 0.89)
- Racial discrimination causally damages mental and physical health. (similarity 0.87)
- Racism harms health even when not personally directed, because it targets shared group characteristics. (similarity 0.86)
- Racialization shortens minority life expectancy even when incident harm is rare. (similarity 0.86)
- Racial harassment triples depression risk and quintuples psychosis prevalence (similarity 0.84)
- Islamophobia operates as a health harm alongside other racisms. (similarity 0.83)
- Racism harms health even without personal victimhood because it targets group identity (similarity 0.82)
- Fear of racism harms mental health more than direct experiences of it do. (similarity 0.82)
- Physical racial attack sharply raises rates of depression and psychosis. (similarity 0.81)
- Racism exposure independently raises risk of mental disorder and psychosis. (similarity 0.80)
- Mere fear of racism harms health more widely than racist encounters themselves do. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Vicarious exposure to racism harms children’s socio-emotional development
#corroborates(0.95) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 324 - Racism harms health even without personal victimhood because it targets group identity
#expands(0.90) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 336 - Racism harms health even when not personally directed, because it targets shared group characteristics.
#expands(0.90) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 341 - Racial harassment triples depression risk and quintuples psychosis prevalence
#exemplifies(0.90) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 313 - Racial discrimination produces measurable biological and physiological damage
#expands(0.85) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 317 - Racialization shortens minority life expectancy even when incident harm is rare.
#corroborates(0.85) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 347 - Society’s racist structure creates and perpetuates the colonized patient’s inferiority complex.
#expands(0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 360