Racial harassment triples depression risk and quintuples psychosis prevalence

Evidence

This occurs via several mechanisms: first, racism increases exposure to the internalization of negative messages that may lead to decreased self-esteem and poorer mental health (Jones 2000); second, exposure to racial stressors, such as interpersonal discriminatory treatment, may result in physiological changes and to the subsequent onset and worsening of disease (Clark et al. 1999); and last, racially motivated violence directly affects mental and physical health. Studies of racism and health found that those reporting to have experienced some form of physical racial attack had a prevalence of depression almost three times higher, and a prevalence of psychosis almost five times higher, than that of ethnic minority people reporting no harassment (Karlsen and Nazroo 2002). — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 313

Categorization

• DEFINE: Spells out the mechanisms by which the text claims racism — hence Islamophobia — becomes embodied harm, the legitimating core of the racialization definitional camp.
• XREF: connects to: 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; Racism exposure independently raises risk of mental disorder and psychosis. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 319 (+8 more)

Related

• Physical racial attack sharply raises rates of depression and psychosis. (similarity 0.93)
• Racism harms health through internalization, physiological stress, and direct violence. (similarity 0.89)
• Racial discrimination causally damages mental and physical health. (similarity 0.88)
• Racism exposure independently raises risk of mental disorder and psychosis. (similarity 0.87)
• Adult racism exposure damages the health of children. (similarity 0.84)
• Racism harms health even when not personally directed, because it targets shared group characteristics. (similarity 0.84)
• Fear of racism harms mental health more than direct experiences of it do. (similarity 0.84)
• Vicarious exposure to racism harms children’s socio-emotional development (similarity 0.83)
• Racial discrimination produces measurable biological and physiological damage (similarity 0.82)
• Racism harms health even without personal victimhood because it targets group identity (similarity 0.82)
• Racialization shortens minority life expectancy even when incident harm is rare. (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia operates as a health harm alongside other racisms. (similarity 0.81)
• Mere fear of racism harms health more widely than racist encounters themselves do. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Racial discrimination produces measurable biological and physiological damage #expands (0.82) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 317
• Racism harms health even without personal victimhood because it targets group identity #expands (0.80) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 336
• Vicarious exposure to racism harms children’s socio-emotional development #expands (0.75) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 324
• The myth of the Negro can drive genuine psychiatric alienation #expands (0.74)
• Racial battle fatigue describes the psychological toll of constant racial microaggressions #complicates (0.72)