Racial Discrimination Essay

Race and ethnicity permeate our everyday lives and are woven into our social fabric, in our criminal justice system, education and educational outcomes, housing, food accessibility, environmental causes, health care, and more. It is because of these conditions that my research interests are rooted in racial and ethnic experiences; I believe the pervasive natures of racism, racist hierarchies, and racial and ethnic privileges, are deserving of empirical study. More specifically, I am interested in the effects of racism on marginalized individuals' personal development and life outcomes. Stereotype threat, for instance, has consequences for academic and career performance, interracial interactions can affect minority individuals' psychological health, and racial stress has been linked to hypertension. My inspiration to earn a doctorate stems from these realities, which indicate those in the minority face serious disparities in life outcomes. A career in academia will allow me to systematically explore these themes, and give me the tools to improve the life outcomes of marginalized individuals. To this end, I am prepared to begin training at the graduate level.

Being a MARC U*STAR student exposed me to the world ofresearch. The program allowed me to work in a lab during my junior year with a faculty advisor, Dr. Krystal Perkins, who mentored me while I continued her research on second generation Latino immigrants. The study centered on the concept of reflected appraisal, a

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