Insights on Neural Response to Racist Threats

Racism has been defined as beliefs, attitudes, institutional arrangements, and acts that tend to denigrate individuals or groups because of phenotypic characteristics or racial or ethnic group affiliation. Black people's existence in the US has been inundated with racism-based experiences, which include roughly 246 years of chattel slavery, 100 years of Jim Crow and segregation, and more than 25 years of mass incarceration. Furthermore, the current milieu in the US involves grappling with issues of systemic racism in law enforcement and the disproportionate number of Black people, particularly those who are unarmed, killed during police encounters each year.