Table 4. Distribution, by poverty level and gender, of the psychosocial variables and Jim Crow birthplace status: 504 black US-born and 501 white US-born participants, My Body My Story (Boston, MA, 2008–2010) (observed data).
| Poverty level: <200% vs > = 200% US poverty level | |||||||||
| Black | White | ||||||||
| Women | Men | Women | Men | ||||||
| <200%(n = 178) | > = 200%(n = 136) | <200%(n = 67) | > = 200%(n = 60) | <200% (n = 124) | > = 200%(n = 172) | <200% (n = 61) | > = 200%(n = 108) | ||
| Psychosocial measures | |||||||||
| Response to unfair treatment (%): | take action and talk to others (act/talk) | 70.2 | 71.3 | 74.6 | 78.3 | 67.7 | 70.4 | 49.2 | 63.0 |
| take action and keep to self (act/quiet) | 8.4 | 5.2 | 10.5 | 5.0 | 5.7 | 7.6 | 19.7 | 11.1 | |
| accept as fact of life and talk to others (accept/talk) | 13.5 | 20.5 | 9.0 | 11.7 | 19.4 | 15.7 | 16.4 | 13.9 | |
| accept as fact of life and keep to self (accept/quiet) | 7.9 | 2.9 | 6.0 | 5.0 | 7.3 | 6.4 | 14.8 | 12.0 | |
| Racial/ethnic centrality (range: 1–5) (mean (SD)) | 3.2 (0.6) | 3.3 (0.7) | 3.3 (0.6) | 3.4 (0.6) | 2.4 (0.6) | 2.5 (0.7) | 2.5 (0.7) | 2.4 (0.7) | |
| Social desirability: continuous (range: 0–100) (mean (SD)) | 44.8 (31.0) | 46.8 (32.5) | 41.0 (30.8) | 38.9 (30.2) | 38.4 (32.0) | 28.5 (28.9) | 19.0 (24.6) | 21.9 (26.7) | |
| Hostility: continuous (range: 8–40) (mean (SD)) | 19.1 (6.4) | 18.1 (6.6) | 19.5 (5.0) | 19.1 (5.5) | 18.1 (5.9) | 17.0 (6.1) | 21.6 (5.4) | 18.2 (6.0) | |
| Jim Crow birthplace status § (%): | born in Jim Crow state before 1965 | 23.6 | 23.5 | 37.3 | 30.0 | 3.2 | 4.7 | 1.6 | 3.7 |
| born in Jim Crow state during or after 1965 | 2.3 | 3.7 | 1.5 | 6.7 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 1.6 | 5.6 | |
| not born in Jim Crow state | 74.2 | 72.8 | 61.2 | 63.3 | 96.8 | 94.2 | 99.7 | 90.7 | |
Note: values in bold indicate that, within the specified racial/ethnic-gender group, the distribution is significantly different (p<0.05) across socioeconomic strata, as based on 2-sided t-test for continuous variables and chi-square test for categorical variables; data presented: observed data (not including missing values).
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Jim Crow states/district : District of Columbia plus Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming [51].