{"id":49133,"date":"2016-09-18T21:54:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T21:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49133"},"modified":"2016-09-18T21:54:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T21:54:32","slug":"meet-the-man-who-proved-that-discrimination-can-make-you-physically-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49133","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Man Who Proved That Discrimination Can Make You Physically Sick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorlines.com\/articles\/meet-man-who-proved-discrimination-can-make-you-physically-sick\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Meet the Man Who Proved That Discrimination Can Make You Physically Sick<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorlines.com\" target=\"_blank\">Colorlines<\/a><br \/>\n2016-09-13<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/miriamzperez\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Miriam Zoila P\u00e9rez<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/davidrwilliams\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. David Williams<\/a> pioneered three ways to\u00a0prove\u00a0the links between discrimination and poor health.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An ever-growing body of research in the fields of public health, sociology and medicine is presenting a strong case for something you may personally know to be to true: Experiencing discrimination is bad for your health.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/davidrwilliams\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. David Williams<\/a>, a\u00a0sociologist, public health researcher and African-American studies professor,\u00a0is a leader in this field. He\u00a0has spent decades creating tools that allow for the scientific measurement of discrimination and its impacts on health.<\/p>\n<p>Williams started his career as a health educator at a\u00a0Michigan hospital, and he says his work there led him to explore the links between individual behavioral changes and the limitations of a person&#8217;s social environment. From there he pursued a Ph.D. in sociology.\u00a0Williams is currently a professor of public health, sociology and African-American history at Harvard University.<\/p>\n<p><em>Colorlines<\/em> spoke to Williams via phone about his work and the incredible body of research about discrimination and health. The interview has been edited for length and clarity&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorlines.com\/articles\/meet-man-who-proved-discrimination-can-make-you-physically-sick\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the Man Who Proved That Discrimination Can Make You Physically Sick Colorlines 2016-09-13 Miriam Zoila P\u00e9rez Dr. David Williams pioneered three ways to\u00a0prove\u00a0the links between discrimination and poor health. An ever-growing body of research in the fields of public health, sociology and medicine is presenting a strong case for something you may personally know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,13743,8,26,394,20],"tags":[3922,2889,6376,25000],"class_list":["post-49133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-colorlines","tag-david-r-williams","tag-david-williams","tag-miriam-zoila-perez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49134,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49133\/revisions\/49134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}