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Nearly 225 Latino college students completed a paper-and-pencil survey, which included a number of measures: Everyday Perceived Racial Discrimination Index (Jackson & Williams, 1995), The Social Health Battery (Rand Corporation, 1978), Mental Health Inventory-18 (Berwick, Murphy, Goldman, Ware, Barsky, & Weinstein, 1991), the Physical Symptoms Index (Moos, Cronkite, Billings, & Finney, 1985). Using path analysis, findings provided empirical support for the proposed model. Specific pathways suggested that social class and skin tone predicted perceived racism. Self-reported darker skin color and lower social class level were related to increased perceptions of racism, which in turn was related to greater levels of racism related stress. There was a significant pathway between racism related stress and health outcomes. The relationship between racism related stress and both mental and physical health was not moderated by coping skills. 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