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Racial/Ethnic Discrimination, Intersectionality, and Latina/o Health

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In this chapter, we summarize the existing literature on self-reported experiences of racial/ethnic discrimination and health status among Latina/o persons in the USA, explore the implications for Latina/o/x health, and identify future directions of research in this critical area. We reviewed 25 peer-reviewed articles that quantitatively examined the association between self-reported discrimination and mental or physical health, published between 2000 and 2016. The reviewed studies were primarily cross-sectional and few compared Latina/o subgroups. We encourage researchers to examine the health impacts of racial/ethnic discrimination on Latina/o health through intersectionality theory to assess discrimination across multiple intersecting social statuses. We also recommend that researchers examine the longitudinal health consequences of structural forms of racism such as carceral policies, educational policies, environmental quality, immigration enforcement, residential segregation, and health care access and quality across spatial contexts.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    We define health inequities as differences in health that are systematic, preventable, unjust, and actionable (Whitehead, 1991).

  2. 2.

    Some individuals and communities with social, historical, and/or birth ties to Latin American countries or colonized territories identify with the term Latina/o/x as a strategy to resist government-driven racial/ethnic labels and embrace their political status and history as a social bloc, rather than identify with their colonizer (i.e. Spain) (Alcoff, 2005; Hayes-Bautista & Chapa, 1987).

  3. 3.

    For a discussion of the health implications of internalized racism and stereotype threat, please see (Williams & Mohammed, 2013).

  4. 4.

    Throughout this chapter, we refer to self-reported discrimination as discrimination.

  5. 5.

    Our use of the term “immigrant” refers to individuals and communities born outside of the United States who have or may be perceived to settle in the United States, or who migrated to the USA with the intent of settling. Due to their birthright citizenship, we refer to Puerto Ricans as “migrants” when referencing to studies involving Puerto Ricans who were born in Puerto Rico and resided in the continental USA at the time of the study.

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LeBrón, A.M.W., Viruell-Fuentes, E.A. (2020). Racial/Ethnic Discrimination, Intersectionality, and Latina/o Health. In: Martínez, A., Rhodes, S. (eds) New and Emerging Issues in Latinx Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24043-1_14

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