Racism is taking it's toll, physically and mentally.
Amid a global pandemic in 2020, the world watched as George Floyd was killed.We were forced to examine the very societies and structures that we are governed by.
One interesting and important explanation is weathering: a term that refers to the effects that chronic racism can have on one’s health; both physically and mentally.This term was coined by Dr Arline Geronimus during the 1970s.She soon noticed that mothers from ethnic minorities suffered more chronic health outcomes the longer they waited to have children compared to their white counterparts.
In the context of racism, weathering refers to the impact racism and marginalisation has on our mental and physical wellbeing.Science has proven that stress, from whatever form, has a detrimental impact to one’s health. Prolonged exposure to pollution for example, can affect many aspects of your health; from skin ageing to heart disease and lung disease, so it can also be understood that persistent racial stress, undertones and microaggressions can too affect you.
Key are environmental and social stressors. Racism, as previously stated, is a form of stress, and stress can both elevate the blood pressure and weaken the immune system leading to all of these outcomes.
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