Differences in the self-reported racism experiences of US-born and foreign-born Black pregnant women Export

@article{citeulike:4608608, abstract = {Differential exposure to minority status stressors may help explain differences in United States (US)-born and foreign-born Black women's birth outcomes. We explored self-reports of racism recorded in a survey of 185 US-born and 114 foreign-born Black pregnant women enrolled in Project Viva, a prospective cohort study of pregnant women in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Self-reported prevalence of personal racism and group racism was significantly higher among US-born than foreign-born Black pregnant women, with US-born women having 4.1 and 7.8 times the odds, respectively, of childhood exposure. In multivariate analyses, US-born women's personal and group racism exposure also was more pervasive across the eight life domains we queried. Examined by immigrant subgroups, US-born women were more similar in their self-reports of racism to foreign-born women who moved to the US before age 18 than to women who immigrated after age 18. Moreover, US-born women more closely resembled foreign-born women from the Caribbean than those from Africa. Differential exposure to self-reported racism over the life course may be a critically important factor that distinguishes US-born Black women from their foreign-born counterparts.}, author = {Dominguez, Tyan P. and Strong, Emily F. and Krieger, Nancy and Gillman, Matthew W. and Rich-Edwards, Janet W.}, citeulike-article-id = {4608608}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.03.022}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0277953609001889}, day = {20}, doi = {10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.03.022}, issn = {02779536}, journal = {Social Science \& Medicine}, keywords = {african-americans, birth-outcomes, discrimination, migrants, nativity, pregnancy, racism, stress}, month = {July}, number = {2}, pages = {258--265}, posted-at = {2009-08-14 14:27:19}, priority = {3}, title = {Differences in the self-reported racism experiences of US-born and foreign-born Black pregnant women}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.03.022}, volume = {69}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4608608 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4608608 N2 - Differential exposure to minority status stressors may help explain differences in United States (US)-born and foreign-born Black women's birth outcomes. We explored self-reports of racism recorded in a survey of 185 US-born and 114 foreign-born Black pregnant women enrolled in Project Viva, a prospective cohort study of pregnant women in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Self-reported prevalence of personal racism and group racism was significantly higher among US-born than foreign-born Black pregnant women, with US-born women having 4.1 and 7.8 times the odds, respectively, of childhood exposure. In multivariate analyses, US-born women's personal and group racism exposure also was more pervasive across the eight life domains we queried. Examined by immigrant subgroups, US-born women were more similar in their self-reports of racism to foreign-born women who moved to the US before age 18 than to women who immigrated after age 18. Moreover, US-born women more closely resembled foreign-born women from the Caribbean than those from Africa. Differential exposure to self-reported racism over the life course may be a critically important factor that distinguishes US-born Black women from their foreign-born counterparts. IS - 2 JF - Social Science & Medicine SN - 02779536 EP - 265 TI - Differences in the self-reported racism experiences of US-born and foreign-born Black pregnant women VL - 69 SP - 258 KW - african-americans KW - birth-outcomes KW - discrimination KW - migrants KW - nativity KW - pregnancy KW - racism KW - stress AU - Dominguez, Tyan AU - Strong, Emily AU - Krieger, Nancy AU - Gillman, Matthew AU - Rich-Edwards, Janet PY - 2009/07/20/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.03.022 ER -