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Race, Race-Based Discrimination, and Health Outcomes Among African Americans

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Mays, Vickie M., Cochran, Susan D., Barnes, Namdi W.·2007·Annual Review of Psychology

DOI 10.1146/annurev.psych.57.102904.190212PMC PMC4181672

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Abstract Persistent and vexing health disadvantages accrue to African Americans despite decades of work to erase the effects of race discrimination in this country. Participating in these efforts, psychologists and other social scientists have hypothesized that African Americans' continuing experiences with racism and discrimination may lie at the root of the many well-documented race-based physical health disparities that affect this population. With newly emerging methodologies in both measurement of contextual factors and functional neuroscience, an opportunity now exists to cleave together a comprehensive understanding of the ways in which discrimination has harmful effects on health. In this article, we review emerging work that locates the cause of race-based health disparities in the external effects of the contextual social space on the internal world of brain functioning and physiologic response. These approaches reflect the growing interdisciplinary nature of psychology in general, and the field of race relations in particular.

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Authors: Mays, V. M., Cochran, S. D., & Barnes, N. W.
Affiliations: University of California, Los Angeles (US)
ORCID: Mays, Vickie M.
Cochran, Susan D.
Venue: Annual Review of Psychology
Publisher: Annual Reviews
Published: 2007-01-01
Volume: 58
Issue: 1
Pages: 201-225
ISSN: 0066-4308 (ISSN-L)
1545-2085
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.57.102904.190212
PMC: PMC4181672
OpenAlex: W2155845082
Cited by: 889
References: 208
Citations by year: 2026: 10 · 2025: 38 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 31 · 2022: 68 · 2021: 74 · 2020: 57 · 2019: 55 · 2018: 52 · 2017: 54 · 2016: 54 · 2015: 51 · 2014: 61 · 2013: 51 · 2012: 61
FWCI: 8.93
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Locations: Annual Review of Psychology (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders: National Institute on Drug Abuse (DA15539, R01DA015539)
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (MD P60-000508, P60MD000508)
Topics: Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
Keywords: racial discrimination, health disparities, African Americans, racism, physiological responses, brain function, race relations, health outcomes
MeSH terms: Amygdala, Arousal, Black or African American, Brain, Chronic Disease, Gyrus Cinguli, Humans, Prejudice, Psychophysiologic Disorders, Psychosocial Deprivation, Risk Factors, Black People, Allostasis

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