The High Cost of Having Hypertension while Black in America

Hinkson, Leslie R.

doi:10.5749/j.ctt1pwt65v.4

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“…An intersectional lens is also valuable for interrogating the social determinants of health (Shultz and Mullings 2006; Hankivsky 2012; Bowleg 2012; Viruell-Fuentes et al 2012; López and Gadsden 2016; Collins and Bilge 2016; Crenshaw 1993; Schultz and Mullings 2006; Hinkson 2017; Ray 2014; Araújo and Borrell 2006; Richardson et al 2011; Weber 2006; Weber 2010). Intersectional research on colorism and gender finds that having dark skin may be more important for women as compared to men in Black and Latinx communities.…”

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What’s Your “Street Race”? Leveraging Multidimensional Measures of Race and Intersectionality for Examining Physical and Mental Health Status among Latinxs

López

Vargas

Juárez

et al. 2017

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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Using the 2015 Latino National Health and Immigration Survey (N= 1,197) we examine the relationship between physical and mental health status and three multidimensional measures of race: 1) “street race,” or how you believe other “Americans” perceive your race at the level of the street; 2) socially assigned race or what we call “ascribed race,” which refers to how you believe others usually classify your race in the U.S.; and 3) “self-perceived race,” or how you usually self-classify your race on questionnaires. We engage in intersectional inquiry by combining street race and gender. We find that only self-perceived race correlates with physical health and that street race is associated with mental health. We also find that men reporting their street race as Latinx1 or Arab were associated with higher odds of reporting worse mental health outcomes. One surprising finding was that, for physical health, men reporting their street race as Latinx were associated with higher odds of reporting optimal physical health. Among women, those reporting their street race as Mexican were associated with lower odds of reporting optimal physical health when compared to all other women; for mental health status, however, we found no differences among women. We argue that “street race” is a promising multidimensional measure of race for exploring inequality among Latinxs.

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