Discrimination and social isolation among African Americans: The moderating role of skin tone.

Ann W NguyenHarry Owen TaylorVerna M KeithWeidi QinUchechi A Mitchell

Published in: Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology (2022)

These findings shed light on African Americans' nuanced experiences with discrimination and colorism. Further, the data demonstrate heterogeneity in the vulnerability to the adverse effects of discrimination within the African American population; the relationship between discrimination and subjective isolation was stratified by skin tone. This underscores the well-documented and persistent racialized social stratification system in the United States (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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