Amani M. Allen

TL;DR: Social media data can be used to provide timely information to investigate shifts in area-level racial sentiment and common themes that emerged during the content analysis of a random subsample of 3300 tweets included: racism and blame, anti-racism, and daily life impact.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that the use of stigmatizing language increased subconscious beliefs that Asian Americans are “perpetual foreigners” and local polynomial regression and interrupted time-series analyses revealed that Implicit Americanness Bias reversed trend and began to increase on March 8, following the increase in stigmatizing media in conservative media outlets.

TL;DR: The findings affirm the need to consider individual variability in coping and potentially other psychosocial processes involved in the stress response process, and offer several insights that may help elucidate the mechanisms by which racial discrimination gets “under the skin.”

TL;DR: Racial discrimination may be an important predictor of cumulative physiologic dysregulation in African American women and other groups experiencing chronic social stress, and factors associated with educational attainment may mitigate this association.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that acts of racism committed against members of one’s racial group may have distinct health consequences beyond the immediate victim or target.