Triple jeopardy: the joint impact of racial segregation and neighborhood poverty on the mental health of black Americans.
D Phuong DoLindsay R B LocklarPaul FlorsheimPublished in: Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology (2019)
The impact of segregation differs by neighborhood poverty and race. The psychological harm of structural racism, resulting in segregation and concentrated poverty, is not additive but multiplicative, reflecting a "triple jeopardy" for blacks, whereby their mental health is detrimentally impacted by the compounded effects of both neighborhood distress and racial segregation.