To this end, Ryan Wade, an assistant professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Illinois, and Gary Harper, a professor of health behavior and health education at the University of Michigan, developed a scale to assess these consequences of racism. This, say, researchers, is a relatively new area of study which explains the need to measure its psychological impact. It is a phenomenon that explores the overlap between racial and gender stereotypes, and its consequences on interracial dating. Racialized sexual discrimination, broadly speaking, refers to the exclusion or conversely, fetishization of certain racial groups over another. According to a 2016 study, 80% of black men, 79% of Asian men and 75% of south Asian men said they experienced racism on the gay dating scene, The Guardian reported.īut until recently, there was no way to measure how this racialized sexual discrimination - also known as sexual racism - impacted the well-being of gay and bisexual men of color using mobile apps and dating websites to search for sexual and romantic partners.
