LONDON (Dispatches) - For the first time, it has been revealed how harmful repeated racial discrimination can be on mental and physical health, new research says.
The study observed how experiences of repeated racial attacks over time including being shouted at, being physically attacked, avoiding a place, or feeling unsafe because of one’s ethnicity affected a person’s mental health.  
"Studies that assess the association between racial discrimination and health, or examine exposure at a certain point in time, underestimate the harm of racial discrimination on the mental health of ethnic minority people and its contribution to ethnic inequalities in health,” said Dr Becares, research fellow in the Manchester University’s School of Social Sciences and in the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity.
According to the research, increased mental health problems were shown to be significantly higher among racial minorities who’d experienced repeated incidents of racial discrimination, when compared to ethnic minorities who did not report any experience of racism.
It was also discovered that it was the fear of avoiding spaces and feeling unsafe due to racial discrimination that had the biggest cumulative effect on the mental health of ethnic minorities.