For this week’s searcher post I decided to further research
a topic that was brought up in class about the effects of perceived racism
among individuals. More specifically, how perceived racism and stress levels
are correlated. In a study conducted by Sellers et al, 2003, it was concluded
that people of certain ethnicities that had strong racial ties to them (i.e
Black, Latino, Asian) were more prone reporting ethnic discrimination in their
everyday lives. In a broader sense, they stated the more one believed that his/
her race was a core component of his/ her identity, the more they would
attribute ambiguous statements about race as being racist. The effects of
perceived racism as well as how frequently it occurs, ultimately leads to higher
levels of stress. In as study by Din-Dzietham et al, 2004, “found that rural
African–American male workers who perceived ‘race as hindrance to job success’
had an 8 mm Hg higher [blood pressure] than those who perceived that race
helped them.” This study was also interesting as it compared the stress levels
of African Americans when subjected to racism from non-African Americans as
well as from other African Americans. It was reported that higher rises in
blood pressure were seen in the latter than in the former- suggesting that
intra-group discrimination was more distressful than inter-group
discrimination.
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