Black people in the United States suffer from psychosis at a rate roughly twice that of white people, according to growing research. Racial disparities in psychosis rates are even wider in Europe. Studies suggest a link between minority status and psychosis, with discrimination and racism being key catalysts. The issue of racial gaps in psychosis has been marginalized in mainstream psychiatry, but recent attention to racial patterns in psychosis has increased. The prevailing assumption in American psychiatry, which follows the biomedical model, is that psychosis is primarily genetic and should be fairly equal across populations, but the data suggests otherwise.