Erschienen in:
02.03.2021 | Viewpoint
Collective Apathy and Racial Health Disparities in the USA: the Need for Empathy-Building and Examples of Positive Change
verfasst von:
James M. DuBois, DSc, PhD
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 7/2021
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Excerpt
In 1906, W.E.B. DuBois wrote that the health disparities between Blacks and Whites in the USA are largely matters of condition—sanitation, education, and economics—rather than racial traits and tendencies.
1 He wrote this to challenge the explicitly racist view that Black people were dying at higher rates than Whites because they are inferior. The particular causes of death that concerned W.E.B. DuBois have changed, but significant disparities persist. Moreover, a subtle form of racism persists that sustains the conditions that give rise to health disparities. …