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- Futurity highlights a study about how racist discrimination and bias against Indian Americans often begins very early in their lives.
- How might experiencing racism from an early age impact the identities of Indian Americans later in life?
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Racial and ethnic discrimination is a regular occurrence for many of the more than 3.5 million South Asians living in the United States. Studies have found increasing rates of hate crimes directed at South Asian Americans, including many Indian Americans.
Despite facing similar levels of discrimination as Hispanic and Native American people, there have been fewer studies of discrimination and its effects on South Asian Americans. And most previous studies have focused on adult populations, excluding adolescents who are especially vulnerable to discrimination as they explore and form their identities.
A new study in the journal Frontiers in Public Health takes a new look at ethnic and racial discrimination that a subgroup of South Asian Americans—Indian Americans—face in the United States, focusing on a younger population than in previous studies.
The research team led by Jamilia Blake, professor in the Texas A&M University School of Public Health and director of the Center for Health Equity and Evaluation Research (CHEER), surveyed second-generation Indian American adolescents to find out about their experiences with racial and ethnic discrimination and how these experiences affected their identities.
Read the full article about discrimination against Indian Americans at Futurity.