Persistent and vexing health disadvantages accrue to African Americans despite decades of work to erase the effects of race discrimination in this country. Participating in these efforts, psychologists and other social scientists have hypothesized that African Americans' continuing experiences with racism and discrimination may lie at the root of the many well-documented race-based physical health disparities that affect this population. With newly emerging methodologies in both measurement of contextual factors and functional neuroscience, an opportunity now exists to cleave together a comprehensive understanding of the ways in which discrimination has harmful effects on health. In this article, we review emerging work that locates the cause of race-based health disparities in the external effects of the contextual social space on the internal world of brain functioning and physiologic response. These approaches reflect the growing interdisciplinary nature of psychology in general, and the field of race relations in particular.

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非裔美国人的种族，基于种族的歧视和健康状况。

尽管为消除该国种族歧视的影响进行了数十年的努力，但非裔美国人仍然面临着持久而烦人的健康劣势。参与这些努力的心理学家和其他社会科学家假设，非洲裔美国人在种族主义和歧视方面的持续经历可能是影响该人口的许多有据可查的基于种族的身体健康差异的根源。借助新兴的方法来测量情境因素和功能神经科学，现在有机会将对歧视对健康的有害影响的方式全面理解在一起。在这篇文章中，我们回顾了新兴的工作，该工作在环境社会空间对大脑功能和生理反应内部世界的外部影响中定位了基于种族的健康差异的原因。这些方法总体上反映了心理学不断发展的跨学科性质，特别是种族关系领域。