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Fourth universal definition of myocardial infarction (2018) Open
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Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations Open
Racial bias in health algorithms The U.S. health care system uses commercial algorithms to guide health decisions. Obermeyer et al. find evidence of racial bias in one widely used algorithm, such that Black patients assigned the same level…
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Racial Inequality in Psychological Research: Trends of the Past and Recommendations for the Future Open
Race plays an important role in how people think, develop, and behave. In the current article, we queried more than 26,000 empirical articles published between 1974 and 2018 in top-tier cognitive, developmental, and social psychology journ…
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Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition Open
Glen Sean Coulthard. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 256 pp., index, notes. $22.50 paper (ISBN 978-0-8166-7965-2); $67.50 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8166-7964-5).Red Skin, White Masks ...
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Dear Science and Other Stories Open
In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on black studies, studies of race, cultural geography, and black feminism as well as a mix of me…
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Risk of being killed by police use of force in the United States by age, race–ethnicity, and sex Open
We use data on police-involved deaths to estimate how the risk of being killed by police use of force in the United States varies across social groups. We estimate the lifetime and age-specific risks of being killed by police by race and s…
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Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: an Intergenerational Perspective* Open
We study the sources of racial disparities in income using anonymized longitudinal data covering nearly the entire U.S. population from 1989 to 2015. We document three results. First, black Americans and American Indians have much lower ra…
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Physician–patient racial concordance and disparities in birthing mortality for newborns Open
Significance A large body of work highlights disparities in survival rates across Black and White newborns during childbirth. We posit that these differences may be ameliorated by racial concordance between the physician and newborn patien…
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Conceptualizing color-evasiveness: using dis/ability critical race theory to expand a color-blind racial ideology in education and society Open
Color-blind racial ideology has historically been conceptualized as an ideology wherein race is immaterial. Efforts not to 'see' race insinuate that recognizing race is problematic; therefore, scholars have identified and critiqued color-b…
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Does Diversity Matter for Health? Experimental Evidence from Oakland Open
We study the effect of physician workforce diversity on the demand for preventive care among African American men. In an experiment in Oakland, California, we randomize black men to black or non-black male medical doctors. We use a two-sta…
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#CommunicationSoWhite Open
Racial inequalities and the colonial legacies of White supremacy permeate scholarly and public discussions today. As part of an ongoing movement to decenter White masculinity as the normative core of scholarly inquiry, this paper is meant …
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Black-Box vs. White-Box: Understanding Their Advantages and Weaknesses From a Practical Point of View Open
Nowadays, in the international scientific community of machine learning, there exists an enormous discussion about the use of black-box models or explainable models; especially in practical problems. On the one hand, a part of the communit…
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Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy among ethnic minority groups Open
With mass covid-19 vaccination efforts under way in many countries, including the UK, we need to understand and redress the disparities in its uptake.Data to 14 February 2021 show that over 90% of adults in Britain have received or would b…
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Feeling Race: Theorizing the Racial Economy of Emotions Open
In this presidential address, I advance a theoretical sketch on racialized emotions—the emotions specific to racialized societies. These emotions are central to the racial edifice of societies, thus, analysts and policymakers should unders…
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AMERICA’S CHANGING RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE Open
The article presents an analysis of the main trends in America’s changing religious landscape at the beginning of the 21st century. It is based on recent sociological studies and survey research conducted by the Public Religion Research In…
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Brexit, Trump, and ‘methodological whiteness’: on the misrecognition of race and class Open
The rhetoric of both the Brexit and Trump campaigns was grounded in conceptions of the past as the basis for political claims in the present. Both established the past as constituted by nations that were represented as ‘white’ into which r…
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Virtual Embodiment of White People in a Black Virtual Body Leads to a Sustained Reduction in Their Implicit Racial Bias Open
Virtual reality can be used to visually substitute a person's body by a life-sized virtual one. Such embodiment results in a perceptual illusion of body ownership over the virtual body (VB). Previous research has shown that the form of the…
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The incidence and gene frequency of ataxia-telangiectasia in the United States. Open
Ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) is an autosomal recessive neurological syndrome of considerable interest because homozygotes are highly predisposed to cancer. Vigorous casefinding in the United States in 1970-72 and 1980-84 identified 231 whit…
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Stigma, medical mistrust, and perceived racism may affect PrEP awareness and uptake in black compared to white gay and bisexual men in Jackson, Mississippi and Boston, Massachusetts Open
Gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) account for more than two thirds of new HIV infections in the U.S., with Black MSM experiencing the greatest burden. Antiretroviral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) can reduce M…
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Breast Cancer Risk From Modifiable and Nonmodifiable Risk Factors Among White Women in the United States Open
This model for absolute risk of breast cancer including SNPs can provide stratification for the population of white women in the United States. The model can also identify subsets of the population at an elevated risk that would benefit mo…
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Urban mobility and neighborhood isolation in America’s 50 largest cities Open
Significance Living in disadvantaged neighborhoods is widely assumed to undermine life chances because residents are isolated from neighborhoods with greater resources. Yet, residential isolation may be mitigated by individuals spending mu…
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Segregation by Design Open
Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation. Starting in the early twentieth century, cities…
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The foreign gaze: authorship in academic global health Open
> I was really interested in black readership. For me the parallel is black music, which is as splendid and complicated and wonderful as it is because its audience was within; its primary audience. The fact that it has become universal, …
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A Practical Guide to Whole Slide Imaging: A White Paper From the Digital Pathology Association Open
Context.— Whole slide imaging (WSI) represents a paradigm shift in pathology, serving as a necessary first step for a wide array of digital tools to enter the field. Its basic function is to digitize glass slides, but its impact on patholo…
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Does STEM Stand Out? Examining Racial/Ethnic Gaps in Persistence Across Postsecondary Fields Open
Informed by the theoretical lens of opportunity hoarding, this study considers whether STEM postsecondary fields stand apart via the disproportionate exclusion of Black and Latina/o youth. Utilizing national data from the Beginning Postsec…
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Music Theory and the White Racial Frame Open
For over twenty years, music theory has tried to diversify with respect to race, yet the field today remains remarkably white, not only in terms of the people who practice music theory but also in the race of the composers and theorists wh…
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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together Open
In one of the most striking passages of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, Heather McGhee, the former president of Demos and current board chair of Color of Change, visits Oak Park in Montgomery, Ala…
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Trends in Racial/Ethnic Representation Among US Medical Students Open
Black, Hispanic, and AIAN students remain underrepresented among medical school matriculants compared with the US population. This underrepresentation has not changed significantly since the institution of the Liaison Committee of Medical …
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A Critical Review of Bilingual Education in the United States: From Basements and Pride to Boutiques and Profit Open
In this article we connect the institutionalization of bilingual education to a post–Civil Rights racial formation that located the root of educational inequalities in the psychological condition of people of color in ways that obscured th…
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Racial bias in judgments of physical size and formidability: From size to threat. Open
Black men tend to be stereotyped as threatening and, as a result, may be disproportionately targeted by police even when unarmed. Here, we found evidence that biased perceptions of young Black men's physical size may play a role in this pr…