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Weathering The Pandemic: Dying Old At A Young Age From Pre-Existing Racist Conditions, Arline T. Geronimus Apr 2021

Weathering The Pandemic: Dying Old At A Young Age From Pre-Existing Racist Conditions, Arline T. Geronimus

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Mainstream social epidemiology now acknowledges the contributions of interpersonal racism, racialized stress, and implicit bias to population health inequity. It also increasingly recognizes that current and historical racist policies place barriers in the way of healthy lifestyles by institutionalizing food deserts, housing decay, and austerity urbanism. Essential as these developments are, they only skim the surface of how insidiously structural racism establishes and reproduces population health inequity. I coined the term “weathering” to describe the effects of sustained cultural oppression upon the body. Weathering expands on the more conventional “social determinants of health” approach to understand the contextually fluctuating and …


Empathy’S Promise And Limits For Those Disproportionately Harmed By The Covid-19 Pandemic, Theresa Glennon Apr 2021

Empathy’S Promise And Limits For Those Disproportionately Harmed By The Covid-19 Pandemic, Theresa Glennon

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Structural race, ethnicity, and class disparities in the United States concentrated and intensified the health, economic, and psychological impact of COVID-19 for certain populations. Those same structural disparities and the belief system that maintains them may also account for the weak policy response that left the United States with high rates of infection and death, economic devastation of individuals, families, and small businesses, and psychological distress. A more equal society with a stronger pre-pandemic safety net may have prevented or eased the disproportionate hardship and avoided the drama and cliffhanging. Or the shock of a pandemic and likelihood of extreme …


Persistent Inequalities, The Pandemic, And The Opportunity To Compete, Rachel F. Moran Apr 2021

Persistent Inequalities, The Pandemic, And The Opportunity To Compete, Rachel F. Moran

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Even before the recent coronavirus pandemic, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status played a powerful role in allocating opportunity—in the public schools and elsewhere. The pandemic has laid bare the dimensions of this inequality with a new and alarming clarity. In this essay, I first will focus on the landscape of educational inequity that existed before the coronavirus forced public schools to shut down. In particular, I will explore patterns of racial and ethnic segregation in America’s schools and how those patterns are linked to additional challenges based on socioeconomic isolation. In addition, I will consider the role of language and …


Is Brown The New Black?: American Muslims, Inherent Propensity For Violence, And America’S Racial History, Amara S. Chaudhry-Kravitz Sep 2013

Is Brown The New Black?: American Muslims, Inherent Propensity For Violence, And America’S Racial History, Amara S. Chaudhry-Kravitz

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No abstract provided.


Beneath The Veil: Corollaries On Diversity And Critical Mass Scholarships From Rawls' Original Position On Justice, Chris Chambers Goodman Mar 2007

Beneath The Veil: Corollaries On Diversity And Critical Mass Scholarships From Rawls' Original Position On Justice, Chris Chambers Goodman

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Second-Class Citizens: Jews, Freedom Of Speech, And Intolerance On Canadian University Campuses, Stefan Braun Mar 2006

Second-Class Citizens: Jews, Freedom Of Speech, And Intolerance On Canadian University Campuses, Stefan Braun

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I'M Confused: How Can The Federal Government Promote Diversity In Higher Education Yet Continue To Strengthen Historically Black Colleges?, Sean B. Seymore Mar 2006

I'M Confused: How Can The Federal Government Promote Diversity In Higher Education Yet Continue To Strengthen Historically Black Colleges?, Sean B. Seymore

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Finding A Hostile Work Environment: The Search For A Reasonable Reasonableness Standard, Meri O. Triades Apr 2002

Finding A Hostile Work Environment: The Search For A Reasonable Reasonableness Standard, Meri O. Triades

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No abstract provided.


When The Classroom Speaks: A Public University's First Amendment Right To A Race-Conscious Admissions Policy, Alfred B. Gordon Apr 2000

When The Classroom Speaks: A Public University's First Amendment Right To A Race-Conscious Admissions Policy, Alfred B. Gordon

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Editor's Note, Wyndall A. Ivey Apr 1999

Editor's Note, Wyndall A. Ivey

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The Future Of Federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Programs:Did The Supreme Court's Decision Iin Adarand Constructors V. Pena Really Make A Difference?, Jennifer L. Haynes Apr 1998

The Future Of Federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Programs:Did The Supreme Court's Decision Iin Adarand Constructors V. Pena Really Make A Difference?, Jennifer L. Haynes

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Foreword: Never Again, Franklin D. Cleckley Apr 1996

Foreword: Never Again, Franklin D. Cleckley

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Civil Rights: A Common And Continuing Struggle, Deval Patrick Apr 1995

Civil Rights: A Common And Continuing Struggle, Deval Patrick

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No abstract provided.