In 2017, researchers at California State University, Northridge, were studying how levels of the stress hormone cortisol changed in Latino students when they were exposed to racism. The students were brought into a room. Then, through a cracked door in the hallway, they heard either a scripted prejudiced conversation about Latinos or a normal conversation that was not related to race.
https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2021/04/09/asian-americans-racism-trauma-health-impacts
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