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APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020

Not All Discrimination Perceived By African Americans Is Equal in Impact Especially When It Is from Another African American: Perceived Perpetrators and Psychological Upset

Virtual · June 2020

Poster Sessions · Cross-Cutting Theme Poster - Risk and Resilience During Emerging Adulthood

  • Vickie Mays
    University of California, Los Angeles
  • Meghan Carlsen
    University of California, Los Angeles
  • Shervin Assari
    Charles Drew Medical University
  • Susan Cochran
    University of California, Los Angeles

Abstract

In this study we examined perceptions of emerging young African American adults of race-based discrimination by Whites and resource-related (SES) discrimination by other AA men or women. Significant differences between AA men and women in the emotional impact of such discrimination with within race group SES experiences the most upsetting.

Race and Ethnicity