How Racism Has Changed the Human Brain Quotes

“This is why historically slave rebellions, Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Movement, definitely the Black Power Movement, and affirmative action subconsciously scared the hell out of White people.  These phenomena all represented opportunities/possibilities of African-Americans becoming competitive threats to White supremacy.  These incidents all confirmed the paranoia, which is further aggravated by the contemporary media’s insistence on emphasizing the “all Black people are violent” (means) and “all Black people are poor” (motive) stereotypes.”
― Joseph R. Gibson Jr., How Racism Has Changed the Human Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Chronic Stress of Everyday Racism in Contemporary America

“Constant cortisol saturation significantly changes neural structures like the hippocampus and PFC, both of which are gradually reduced in size and activity as cortisol annihilates hippocampus and PFC neurons via prolonged overactivation.”
― Joseph R. Gibson Jr., How Racism Has Changed the Human Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Chronic Stress of Everyday Racism in Contemporary America

“Whenever stress experiences are chronic and/or complete recovery is not possible because an individual lacks control over a given stressor or lacks the resources to adequately cope with it, McEwen and Gianaros explained that “a proliferation of recursive neural, physiological, behavioral, cognitive, and emotional changes that increase vulnerability to ill health and premature death by several chronic medical conditions” can occur.  To put it plainly, chronic stress creates brain changes that ultimately jeopardize our very survival.”
― Joseph R. Gibson Jr., How Racism Has Changed the Human Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Chronic Stress of Everyday Racism in Contemporary America

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― Joseph R. Gibson Jr., How Racism Has Changed the Human Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Chronic Stress of Everyday Racism in Contemporary America