When The Tough Break Analysis

In the film, When the Bough Breaks, researches aimed to figure out why race is influencing women to give birth to underweight/premature babies.(California Newsreel) They found that pregnancy outcomes are affected by racism and not education due to the gap between African American women’s education had become the same level as Caucasians, but there was still a premature babies being born. (California Newsreel) They believe pregnancy outcomes are affected racism due to African American women, such as Kim Anderson, who had higher education and was in peak health still had premature babies. (California Newsreel) Pregnancy outcomes are affected by chronic stress due to the government cutting back social programs it caused higher fatality for African American baby. (California Newsreels) It ties to them dealing with racism day in and day out, which causes their organ systems to get weaker due to the stress hormones (California Newsreels). The stressors that African Americans face more than Caucasians are more likely to be denied …show more content…
As discussed in a film in 2004 a study was done on males to see who was more inclined to get hired and during that time statistics showed that a Caucasian male with a felony is more inclined to get hired. (California Newsreel) This example relates to the Education Social Determinant showing that even those with more than enough credentials and education are racial profiled. (California Newsreel). Another Social Determinants of Health to focus on is Neighborhood. In the video an African American woman discusses how her young daughter will go ask Caucasian kid to play and will just be stared at. (California Newsreel). This relates to chronic stress because the women details the experience as “heartbreaking” and what was told in the last paragraph shows how stress creates complications during a women pregnancy . (California