Study: Racism shortens lives and hurts health of blacks by promoting genes that lead to inflammation and illness
- Written by April Thames, Associate Professor, Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
African Americans have worse health outcomes and die earlier than whites. Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock.comNegative social attitudes, such as racism and discrimination, damage the health of those who are targeted by triggering a cascade of aberrant biological responses, including abnormal gene activity. It is not surprising that reports...