Light Privilege? Skin Tone Stratification in Health among African Americans.

ABSTRACT: Skin tone is a significant marker used by others to evaluate and rank the social position of minorities. While skin color represents a particularly salient dimension of race, its consequences for health remains unclear. This study uses four waves of panel data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study and random intercept multilevel models to address three research questions critical to understanding the skin color-health relationship among African American adults (N=1,680): what is the relationship between skin color and two global measures of health (cumulative biological risk and self-rated health)? To what extent are these relationships gendered? Do socioeconomic resources, stressors, and discrimination help explain the skin color-health relationship? Fin

SUBMITTER: Hargrove TW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7051017 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature