The federal government is spending nearly $1 million on research to examine whether racial microaggressions negatively impact the health of Hispanics.
Researchers at the University of Houston are funding a $950,000 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate whether ethnic microaggressions against “Latino” populations are leading to increased infection rates. Received a grant of $8,283. alcoholism, smoking and obesity, the grant records will be displayed. One HHS-funded study defines microaggressions as “brief, subtle forms of everyday discrimination due to racial/ethnic status.”
“Where are you from?” and “Do you speak English?” identified at the University of Houston as an example of verbal microaggressions targeting Hispanic individuals press release Announcement of smoking research grants. (Related: Biden HHS Fund studies to help ‘transgender people’ cope with ‘stress’ due to 2027 novel coronavirus)
Research associated with the largest grant, which received $611,203 from HHS, is expected to begin in September 2023 and continue through July 2026, according to federal grant records. The name of the project, “Assessing Microaggressions in Latino Individuals with Obesity,” states that microaggressions are an “underestimated” reason why Hispanics engage in more “obesity-related eating and physical inactivity behaviors.” “This may be a contributing factor.”
Specifically, whether microaggressions cause “more emotional eating, food cravings, loss of control during eating, episodes of binge eating” or “greater fear of exercise” among Latinos. We plan to investigate.
Another HHS-funded study, “Latinx Hazardous Drinkers: Assessing Microaggressions,” received $194,238 in taxpayer funding and will run from September 2023 to 2028, according to grant records. It will run until August. The study will “examine the influence of microaggressions on motivations for alcohol use and risky drinking” among Latinos.
“Latino” is a gender-neutral term that some center-left activists advocate for people of Hispanic descent. Among Hispanics familiar with the term, roughly two-thirds oppose its use. according to According to a 2019 Pew Research Center study.
“The reality is that there is very little support for its use, and it is seen as being used in beltways and in Ivy League tower settings,” said Domingo García, president of the League of Latin American Citizens. Saidannounced that the organization would no longer use Latin in its communications.
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The NIH-funded study, “Latino Smokers: Assessing Ethnic Microaggressions on Smoking Behavior and Relapse,” was a federal effort to examine the role microaggressions play in the smoking habits of Hispanic adults. received $152,842 in support.
“Microaggressions are less studied than blatant acts of discrimination,” says Brooke Redmond. assistant professor said the University of Houston professor and principal investigator working on these projects.
“It can also be mitigated to some extent because it doesn’t seem as aggressive or overt as other types of discrimination,” she continued. “But if someone is experiencing these constant microaggressions all day long, how does that affect their smoking?”
She compared the health effects of daily microaggressions to an overflowing glass of water.
“Each experience is like pouring more water into a glass, but there’s only so much water a glass can handle,” Redmond says. “Eventually the cup gets full, but what are the health implications of that?”
This is not the NIH’s only foray into microaggression research.The agency awarded more than $2.8 million from 2021 to 2024 to study the impact of microaggressions on Black gay women living with HIV, grant records show. show.
HHS and NIH did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation. DCNF received an automated reply from Ms. Redmond stating that she was unavailable.
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