Racism And Depression: Article Analysis

Vilma Santana, Naomar Almeida-Filho, Robert Roberts & Sharon P. Cooper wrote an article called “Skin Colour, Perception of Racism and Depression among Adolescents in Urban Brazil”. This is an empirical article that addresses the topics of racial discrimination, depression, race, and health. This article also discusses the relationship between races, ethnicity and health has been acknowledged in the understanding of social inequalities in health among the young citizens in Brazil. With that being said, a cluster of households in the city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil were randomly selected for a cross-sectional study. 973 individuals ranging from the ages of 10 to 21 was subjected to answering questionnaires about racial discrimination, socio-demographic and health-related variables. Different racial marriages is tolerated is Brazil, but individuals of black skin colour have poorer social and health levels then Caucasians. According to the research that was conducted

Of course if an individual was being in an environment of discrimination, no matter if it’s socially, racially, physically, or mentally. Plus being exposed to that condition at a young age, possibly on a day to day basics. Those individuals are going to have a very high stress level that can lead to someone having major depression, major health.issues or even both. Although this research was conducted in the urban community of Brazil, the same issues arise in the urban community in the United States. Furthermore, this was an empirical article. An empirical article is when an article where the researcher conducts research which is based on observations or experiments. With that being said, the hypothesis of this study was that racial discrimination is related with depression and depressive symptoms among young adults living in a Brazilian