Fear of a Black Neighborhood: Anti-Black Racism and the Health of White Americans.

ABSTRACT: Does anti-Black racism harm White Americans? We advance hypotheses that address this question within the neighborhood context. Hypotheses are tested with neighborhood and survey data from a probability sample of White residents of Nashville, Tennessee. We find that regardless of neighborhood crime rates or socioeconomic compositions, Whites report heightened perceptions of crime and danger in their neighborhoods as the proportion of Black residents increases. Perceived neighborhood danger, in turn, predicts increased symptoms of psychophysiological distress. When stratified by socioeconomic status (SES), however, low-SES Whites also report perceptions of higher status when living near more Black neighbors, which entirely offsets their distress. We conclude that although anti-Black racism c

SUBMITTER: Louie P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10789170 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature