Racial discrimination’s effects on health have been dramatically underestimated, according to a study by a UB sociologist that looks at the health implications of racism among two generations of ...

Black Americans experience racial discrimination on a regular basis, and it is a cause of chronic and pervasive stress. It is known to contribute to elevated risk for poor mental health outcomes, but ...

URBANA, Ill. – Black Americans experience racial discrimination on a regular basis, and it is a cause of chronic and pervasive stress. It is known to contribute to elevated risk for poor mental health ...

Ethnicity & Disease, Vol. 26, No. 3, Health Inequities in Hypertension and Related Organ Damage (Summer 2016), pp. 453-460 (8 pages) Objective: Racial/ethnic minorities in the United States not only ...

Experiencing discrimination may change how the brain and the gut communicate with each other, a new study has found. The disruption, the researchers say, could promote behaviors that increase people’s ...

People who reported experiencing discrimination more than once a week early in the pandemic had seventeen-fold increased odds of moderate to severe depressive symptoms and ten-fold increased odds of ...

Subtle sexism that pervades everyday life often gets shrugged off. But research shows it can still have lasting psychological ...

The Science Behind Mental Health Damage Research has established that weight stigma is directly related to greater depressive ...