Effects Of Racism On Minorities

This paper will be addressing the issue of racism and its health effects on targeted minorities. This essay will attempt to answer/prove my research question, which asked, if the unequal health status between whites and minorities is as a result of the effects of racism? . Racism has been proven to cause serious health disadvantages to minorities. It has become so advanced that it is imbedded in various institutions of the society like schools, health centers, prisons and the media and as such part of everyday life. They have been expressed through methods like residential segregation, mass media negative portrayal and bias health-care allocation; this has resulted in unequal health disparities among races in America. Various reviews have consistently
This paper will explore the effects of segregation among minorities. Comparing the difference in racially segregated neighborhoods, this paper will attempt to prove that segregation is a social construct aimed at maintaining the racial hierarchy and has contributed in the poor health status of minorities. Second, the paper will expatiate on the health consequences from negative media portrayal of minorities. The portrayal of minorities in a negative fashion reinforces prejudice towards that minority groups which in turn can cause health problems. Third, will be an investigation of the link between biased health-care decisions against minorities. In this part, I will be relying on the experiment provided in one of the sources to prove that bias health decisions are race related as well as finance
This shows that the desire to avoid social contact with blacks, driven by an ideology on black inferiority, was a driving force behind the development of deliberate policies that would create racial residential segregation (Williams et al 1999 496). An example of this form of discrimination has involved the real estate industry, banking institutions and vigilante neighborhood organizations that made it their purpose to ensure black-Americans remain in the impoverished neighborhoods (Williams et al 1999 496). Concentrated poverty in residential segregated neighborhoods has shown to cause poor nutrition, less access to adequate medical services, unhealthy environment and high level of stress in minorities and as such is responsible for the unequal health status of whites to minorities (Chiquita Collins 1999,