Back in 2007, Anne Strieber published a diary called "Race." It’s a subject that’s very important to her, and she has requested that we publish a link to it today, in honor of the memory of Martin Luther King. To read ‘Race,’ click here.
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In the August 31st edition of the New York Times, Douglas Quenqua writes: "The idea that race or ethnicity might help determine how well people sleep is relatively new among sleep researchers. But in the few short years that epidemiologists, demographers and psychologists have been studying the link, they have repeatedly come to the same conclusion: In the United States, at least, sleep is not colorblind. "
Non-Hispanic whites get more and better-quality sleep than people of other races, studies repeatedly show. Blacks are the most likely to get shorter, more restless sleep.
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Despite increasing numbers of multiethnic neighborhoods in the United States, relatively few black or white families are actually moving into these them.
This segregation doesn’t just happen in the US–it’s prevalent all over the world. The Economist talks about how, for thousands of years, cities have been divided along racial lines. During the period of colonialism, white Europeans grabbed the safest, healthiest and nicest parts of the urban landscape for themselves.
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What if there was a drug that could "cure" racism? This may be true: Tests of the commonly prescribed heart drug propranolol show that it can alter unconscious racial bias–After volunteers took the drug, they were less racially biased than those who took a placebo.
Racism is based on fear and propranolol helps reduce fear by blocking nerve circuits that govern the heart rate and the part of the brain linked with emotional responses.
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