We incorporate anthropological insights into a stigma framework to elucidate the role of culture in threat perception and stigma among Chinese groups. Prior work suggests that genetic contamination that jeopardizes the extension of one's family lineage may comprise a culture-specific threat...

To understand Chinese immigrants' experiences with mental illness stigma and mental health disparities, we integrate frameworks of ‘structural vulnerability’ and ‘moral experience’ to identify how interaction between structural discrimination and cultural engagements might shape stigma....

When people have an interest in keeping other people down, in or away, stigma is a resource that allows them to obtain ends they desire. We call this resource “stigma power” and use the term to refer to instances in which stigma processes achieve the aims of stigmatizers with respect to the...