Do you think race has an impact on health? David R. Williams developed a scale that measures the impact of discrimination and racism on well-being. Traditional measures such as the impacts of systemic racism on income and education are known; the scale Williams developed exlores how factors like negative stereotypes, implicit bias, and resedential segregation both create and sustain inequality. Systemic racism is real. Watch this eye-opening talk by Williams to find out how racism makes us sick.
