Islamophobia intersects multiple identities to shape additive health effects.

Evidence

Islamophobia is an opportunity to examine the health effects of the intersection of several forms of discrimination. Muslims vary by race, ethnicity, national origin, social class, gender, and immigration status. Any or all of these identity constructs can be sources of social bias, and attaining an accurate picture of risk requires considering all sources of social bias. Generally, inadequate research attention is given to the ways in which racism combines with multiple aspects of stigma and discrimination, additively and interactively, to affect health. — Goleen Samari, Islamophobia and Public Health in the…, 58

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sets up the intersectionality framework the rest of the paper will operationalize.

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