Vicarious exposure to racism harms children’s socio-emotional development

Evidence

Studies focusing on children show that ethnic minority children growing up in an environment where experiences of racial discrimination are common – that is, where their mothers, other family members or other people in the neighbourhood are racially insulted and treated disrespectfully and unfairly because of their ethnicity – are more likely to suffer from socio-emotional problems as they grow up than their peers from ethnic minority backgrounds whose families do not report experiences of racial discrimination (Bécares et al. 2015). — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 324

Categorization

• XREF: Vicarious/inherited harm parallels how the report frames Islamophobia as intergenerational — connects to the life-course and transgenerational claims of the racialization turn against Bleich’s narrower ‘attitudes’ definition. — connects to: Racism harms health through internalization, physiological stress, and direct violence. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 318; Adult racism exposure damages the health of children. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 330; Racial harassment triples depression risk and quintuples psychosis prevalence — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 313 (+8 more)

Related

• Adult racism exposure damages the health of children. (similarity 0.89)
• Racism harms health through internalization, physiological stress, and direct violence. (similarity 0.85)
• Racial harassment triples depression risk and quintuples psychosis prevalence (similarity 0.83)
• Racial discrimination causally damages mental and physical health. (similarity 0.83)
• Fear of racism harms mental health more than direct experiences of it do. (similarity 0.83)
• Parental ethnic-racial socialization (teaching racial pride and how to cope with bias) buffers youth against the psychological harms of ethnic-racial discrimination, qualifying the inevitability… (similarity 0.82)
• Racialization shortens minority life expectancy even when incident harm is rare. (similarity 0.82)
• Racism harms health even when not personally directed, because it targets shared group characteristics. (similarity 0.81)
• Racism exposure independently raises risk of mental disorder and psychosis. (similarity 0.80)
• Mere fear of racism harms health more widely than racist encounters themselves do. (similarity 0.79)
• Physical racial attack sharply raises rates of depression and psychosis. (similarity 0.79)
• Racism harms health even without personal victimhood because it targets group identity (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Racial school segregation generates lasting feelings of inferiority among minority children #exemplifies (0.85) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 504
• Racial discrimination causally damages mental and physical health. #expands (0.83) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 321
• Racism harms health even without personal victimhood because it targets group identity #expands (0.82) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 336
• For colonial subjects the racial trauma occurs in childhood schooling #exemplifies (0.80)
• Fear of racism harms mental health more than direct experiences of it do. #complicates (0.78) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 328
• Naming racism publicly is itself protective for victims’ mental health #complicates (0.75) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 341