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Racism and Health
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How racism has been conceptualized, measured, and operationalized as a determinant of health in this body of research is reviewed, as well as the main findings, limitations, and future directions in this burgeoning field of study.Abstract:
In the early 1990s, the explicit examination of racism as a determinant of health has emerged as a novel area of research within the much broader and well-established literature on racial/ethnic disparities in health. This article reviews how racism has been conceptualized, measured, and operationalized as a determinant of health in this body of research, as well as the main findings, limitations, and future directions in this burgeoning field of study.read more
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Discrimination and racial disparities in health: evidence and needed research
TL;DR: Advancing the understanding of the relationship between perceived discrimination and health will require more attention to situating discrimination within the context of other health-relevant aspects of racism, measuring it comprehensively and accurately, assessing its stressful dimensions, and identifying the mechanisms that link discrimination to health.
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Racism and Health I: Pathways and Scientific Evidence
TL;DR: A large and growing body of evidence indicates that experiences of racial discrimination are an important type of psychosocial stressor that can lead to adverse changes in health status and altered behavioral patterns that increase health risks.
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A Piece of the Pie: Blacks and White Immigrants since 1880.
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Racism, disadvantage and multiculturalism: towards effective anti-racist praxis
Gabrielle Berman,Yin Paradies +1 more
TL;DR: The authors disentangles the concepts of "equity" versus "equality", "racism", "anti-racism" and "disadvantage" within multiculturalism, and distinguishes between policies and practices designed to mitigate disadvantage and those designed to address racism.
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Statistical abstract of the United States
TL;DR: The Red River of the North basin of the Philippines was considered a part of the Louisiana Purchase by the United States Department of Commerce in the 1939 Census Atlas of the United Philippines as discussed by the authors.
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Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
TL;DR: In this article, a panel of experts documents this evidence and explores how persons of color experience the health care environment, examining how disparities in treatment may arise in health care systems and looking at aspects of the clinical encounter that may contribute to such disparities.
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A Threat in the Air How Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identity and Performance
TL;DR: Research shows that this threat dramatically depresses the standardized test performance of women and African Americans who are in the academic vanguard of their groups, that it causes disidentification with school, and that practices that reduce this threat can reduce these negative effects.
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American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that racial segregation is crucial to explaining the emergence of the urban underclass during the 1970s and that a strong interaction between rising rates of poverty and high levels of residential segregation explains where, why and in which groups the underclass arose.
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Stereotypes and prejudice: Their automatic and controlled components.
TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical model based on the dissociation ofantomatic and controlled processes involved in prejudice was proposed, which suggests that the stereotype is automatically activated in the presence of a member (or some symbolic equivalent) of the stereotyped group and that Iow-prejudiee responses require controlled inhibition of the automatically activated stereotype.