Figure 1.

Model for Black social capital and social mobility in Black communities. This model illustrates that systemic racism is the root causal factor working through structures that support access or restrict access to social and political determinants of health. These structures influence the forms and measures of social capital and the recognition of an explicit need to create and acknowledge social capital opportunities created through a Black person’s or Black community’s experience in America. All forms of social capital are subsequently filtered through social constructions of individual race that ultimately influence objective health and socioeconomic mobility.