About The Effects of Racism on Mental Health
Each day in the United States, news’ headlines include stories of:
• Verbal and
physical racial attacks on children at school—sometimes resulting in suicide.
• Adults having
the police called on them for attending to their daily affairs: barbequing at a
park, leaving their home, walking in neighborhoods.
• Local/state/national leaders making racial slurs and encouraging physical harm
to occur toward ethnic groups, their leaders and politicians.
• Families being
separated at borders with the children caged, neglected and crying for their
parents.
• Religious groups
being attacked at their places of worship with racial graffiti, arson,
shootings and bombs.
What
effects do racist incidences have on the short-term and long-term mental and
physical well being of targeted groups? Join us as we screen the segment “Place
Matters,” from the 2008 PBS series Unnatural Causes, followed by a
discussion with Shea A. Lott, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, OHSU
School of Medicine.