Online racial abuse triggers measurable physiological stress responses

Evidence

For three weeks, I could not go online without the little muscle under my left eye twitching. The stress had caused a physiological response in which I essentially winced every time I opened my laptop. I became conditioned to expect the worst; and when I thought the rhetoric couldn’t spiral any lower, it always did. I later learned that what I experienced is a form of racial trauma, and several years later I am still processing its effects through therapy, prayer, and reflection. — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross, 15

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Surveillance-driven racialization produces measurable physical and psychological stress in Muslim Americans — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 419; Racial anxiety is a measurable stress response to intergroup contact; Racial anxiety produces measurable physiological, behavioral, and cognitive effects in interracial encounters. — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 1370 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Surveillance-driven racialization produces measurable physical and psychological stress in Muslim Americans #corroborates (0.95) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 419
• Racial discrimination produces measurable biological and physiological damage #corroborates (0.95) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 317
• Racial anxiety produces measurable physiological, behavioral, and cognitive effects in interracial encounters. #corroborates (0.92) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 1370
• Racial anxiety is a measurable stress response to intergroup contact #corroborates (0.90)
• Stereotype threat produces measurable physiological stress responses in body and brain #corroborates (0.90) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 1374
• Racism harms health through internalization, physiological stress, and direct violence. #corroborates (0.90) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 318
• Implicit out-group bias triggers measurable physiological threat responses #corroborates (0.90) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 277
• Mundane routine racism causes chronic psychological and physical harm #corroborates (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1467
• Racial harassment triples depression risk and quintuples psychosis prevalence #corroborates (0.85) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 313