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Pressure to navigate a workplace and stay employed while experiencing everyday slights, snubs and insults can have a negative effect on mental health.

Jasmine Vaughn-Hall, Andre Lamar and Nicolette White, York Daily Record Published 8:18 pm UTC May. 10, 2021 Rob Cintron, 38, of Magnolia, is Puerto Rican and Black. Cintron said he worked at a construction job for three years and would hear racial slurs from white co-workers.Andre Lamar They referred to him as a "33."  A few months into a construction job, Rob Cintron said he was working on a house with his crew chief and a younger co-worker, who were both white. The crew chief would giggle after repeating an unusual phrase around Cintron. “He’d say, ‘Yeah, them 33s.’ It just sound...

One of the earliest stains on the legacy of psychiatry, my medical specialty, dates to the American 1840 census, when the US government first began systematically collecting information on “idiocy” and “insanity.” According to the results, the purported rates of mental illness among free blacks in northern cities were deemed to exceed those among enslaved blacks in the south by an 11-to-one ratio. South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun, a notoriously strident defender of slavery, seized upon the results as “proof” that “the African is incapable of self-care and sinks into lunacy...