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Jun 28, 2017 · Scientists no longer believe there is a biological basis to distinguish racial groups, rather, race is a social, cultural, and/or political construct wherein racial segregation has real consequences on health and health disparities.
- Bernard Kwabi-Addo
- bkwabi-addo@howard.edu
- 2017
Mar 13, 2020 · Race is a highly flexible way in which societies lump people into groups based on appearance that is assumed to be indicative of deeper biological or cultural connections. As a cultural category, the definitions and descriptions of races vary.
May 3, 2024 · Race is complicated by social class, sex, geographical context and socio‐economic demographics. However, importantly, being considered part of a race has biological effects.
- Pioneering Racial “Science”
- Genetics and Racial Health Disparities
- Interdisciplinary Research Is Key
- The New Field of Social Epigenomics
From its beginning, the field of biology was enmeshed with racist ideas. In the eighteenth century, Carl Linnaeus, founder of modern taxonomy, classified humans into what became a racial hierarchy. As the Linnean Society of London explains, in its effort “to confront the consequences of scientific racism,” in Linnaeus's first nine editions of his f...
The major cause of health disparities is racism and its attendant ills, such as poverty, housing segregation, lack of quality education and health care, and chronic stress, say epidemiologists.Nevertheless, Robine says, “It's worth studying the genetic effects as well, because we know that it plays a role and there is a path for us to identify the ...
Genetic ancestry plays only a small role in explaining why most of the major causes of death and disability in the United States (other than lung cancer and suicide) occur more frequently in Black people than in White, says cardiologist and epidemiologist Richard S. Cooper of Loyola University Chicago's Stritch School of Medicine. Not only chronic ...
In 2017, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), part of the NIH, initiated a social epigenomics research program. Along with the NIMHD, the $43.6 million program was funded by the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Aging, and the National Human Genome Research Institute. “Social epigenomics is th...
- Beth Baker
- 2021
Let’s start first with race, which refers to a category of people who share certain inherited physical characteristics, such as skin color, facial features, and stature. A key question about race is whether it is more of a biological category or a social category.
Sep 25, 2024 · Prompted by advances in other fields, particularly anthropology and history, scholars began to examine race as a social and cultural, rather than biological, phenomenon and have determined that race is a social invention of relatively recent origin.
Scholars continue to debate the degrees to which racial categories are biologically warranted and socially constructed. [ 46 ] For example, in 2008, John Hartigan Jr. argued for a view of race that focused primarily on culture, but which does not ignore the potential relevance of biology or genetics. [ 47 ]
