caa a22 4500 475738950 CHVBK 20180406123454.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005580300128 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005580300128 Is Skin Color a Marker for Racial Discrimination? Explaining the Skin Color-Hypertension Relationship [Elektronische Daten] [Elizabeth Klonoff, Hope Landrine] It is widely assumed that dark-skinned Blacks have higher rates of hypertension than their lighter-skinned cohorts because the former experience greater racial discrimination. However, there is no empirical evidence linking skin color to discrimination. This study tested the extent to which skin color is associated with differential exposure to discrimination for a sample of 300 Black adults. Results revealed that dark-skinned Blacks were 11 times more likely to experience frequent racial discrimination than their light-skinned counterparts; 67% of subjects reporting high discrimination were dark-skinned and only 8.5% were light-skinned. These preliminary findings suggest that skin color indeed may be a marker for racial discrimination and highlight the need to assess discrimination in studies of the skin color-hypertension relationship. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2000 skin color nationallicence Blacks nationallicence racial discrimination nationallicence hypertension nationallicence Klonoff Elizabeth Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, 92182-4611, San Diego, California aut Landrine Hope Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, 92182-4611, San Diego, California aut Journal of Behavioral Medicine Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 23/4(2000-08-01), 329-338 0160-7715 23:4<329 2000 23 10865 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005580300128 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005580300128 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Klonoff Elizabeth Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, 92182-4611, San Diego, California aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Landrine Hope Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, 92182-4611, San Diego, California aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Behavioral Medicine Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 23/4(2000-08-01), 329-338 0160-7715 23:4<329 2000 23 10865 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer