Racial discrimination produces measurable biological and physiological damage

Evidence

Indeed, there is evidence that chronic exposure to everyday racial discrimination is associated with poor sleep (Lewis et al. 2013), coronary artery calcification (Lewis et al. 2006) and hormonal stress responses such as altered diurnal cortisol patterns and a higher cortisol awakening response (Adam et al. 2015). — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 317

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: Islamophobia as bodily harm — a ‘biology of bigotry’ piece linking discrimination to cortisol and cardiovascular disease in the UK Muslim population.
• XREF: connects to: Racism operates through biological and cultural registers that reinforce each other; Racism harms health through internalization, physiological stress, and direct violence. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 318; Physical racial attack sharply raises rates of depression and psychosis. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 318 (+13 more)

Related

• Racial discrimination causally damages mental and physical health. (similarity 0.91)
• Racism harms health through internalization, physiological stress, and direct violence. (similarity 0.84)
• Everyday discrimination harms health through stress, physiology, and reduced care-seeking. (similarity 0.83)
• Racism harms health even when not personally directed, because it targets shared group characteristics. (similarity 0.82)
• Racial harassment triples depression risk and quintuples psychosis prevalence (similarity 0.82)
• Racial discrimination must be modeled as dynamic and transgenerational (similarity 0.82)
• Physical racial attack sharply raises rates of depression and psychosis. (similarity 0.82)
• Fear of racism harms mental health more than direct experiences of it do. (similarity 0.81)
• Racism harms health even without personal victimhood because it targets group identity (similarity 0.80)
• Online racial abuse triggers measurable physiological stress responses (similarity 0.80)
• Racism exposure independently raises risk of mental disorder and psychosis. (similarity 0.80)
• Racialization shortens minority life expectancy even when incident harm is rare. (similarity 0.79)
• Racism operates through biological and cultural registers that reinforce each other (similarity 0.78)
• Islamophobia operates as a health harm alongside other racisms. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Racism harms health even without personal victimhood because it targets group identity #corroborates (0.85) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 336
• Racial battle fatigue describes the psychological toll of constant racial microaggressions #expands (0.80)
• Negrophobia operates on the biological and instinctual level. #qualifies (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 601