Everyday racism operates through mundane, difficult-to-pinpoint microinjustices that damage health.
Evidence
Why distinguish between racism and everyday racism? Everyday racism is not about extreme incidents. The crucial characteristic of everyday racism is that it concerns mundane practices. This does not make everyday racism a racism of a more humane kind. Although everyday racism has such an informal ring that it may sound as if it concerns relatively unharmful and unproblematic events, it has been shown that the psychological distress due to racism on a day-to-day basis can have chronic adverse effects on mental and physical health (Fulani, 1988; Jackson et al., 1996). According to Thomas La Veist (1996) several studies have demonstrated a link between exposure to racism and high blood pressure. Everyday racism, though felt persistently, is often difficult to pinpoint. As a result these microinjustices become normal, fused into familiar practices, practices taken for granted, attitudes and behaviors sustaining racial injustice. Continuous disrespect and hostilities nurture alienation from society, or even from self (McGary, 1999). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1467
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines ‘everyday racism’ in contrast to overt/extreme incidents — useful grounding for the vault’s racialization concept.
- XREF: Connects to vault treatments of racial formation grounding race in everyday practice; also resonates with Loïc Wacquant’s microaggression-adjacent work on mundane racialized practice. — connects to: Routine everyday racism damages health more than isolated major incidents.; Mundane routine racism causes chronic psychological and physical harm — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1467; Everyday racism harms health more than occasional major racist confrontations do (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Mundane routine racism causes chronic psychological and physical harm
#corroborates(0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1467 - Routine everyday racism damages health more than isolated major incidents.
#corroborates(0.90) - Everyday racism harms health more than occasional major racist confrontations do
#corroborates(0.90) - Racism harms health through internalization, physiological stress, and direct violence.
#expands(0.85) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 318 - Everyday discrimination harms health through stress, physiology, and reduced care-seeking.
#corroborates(0.85) — Goleen Samari, Islamophobia and Public Health in the…, 31 - Racial discrimination causally damages mental and physical health.
#corroborates(0.80) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 321