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Persistent Peril: Why African American babies have the highest infant mortality rate in the developed world | RaceWire Article

  • It’s known, for example, that a child is more likely to be born low birth weight if her mother was also born that way. If the cause is not a shared gene, perhaps it’s a shared experience. For instance, the immune system begins to develop in utero and matures over time. During certain critical periods of development, Dr. Lu points out, the immune system can be adversely affected by certain experiences and exposures, such as repeated infections or undue stress. These exposures may pattern the immune system in a particular way that sets the stage for increased risk to poor health and poor birth outcomes. A mother with less than optimal immune response may give birth to a baby with less than optimal immune response and so on.
  • Chronic emotional stress results from many factors, including physically demanding jobs and a lack of control in the workplace, single parenthood, and financial worries–all problems experienced disproportionately by women of color. Discrimination is also a documented source of harmful stress. One study found that women who gave birth to very low birth weight babies were more likely to have experienced racial discrimination than women who had normal weight babies.
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11 Sep 08

Michigan Messenger » Lose your house, lose your vote (and what it could mean for election)

  • The Macomb County party’s plans to challenge voters who have defaulted on their house payments is likely to disproportionately affect African-Americans who are overwhelmingly Democratic voters.
  • More than 60 percent of all sub-prime loans — the most likely kind of loan to go into default — were made to African-Americans in Michigan, according to a report issued last year by the state’s Department of Labor and Economic Growth.
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15 Mar 08

Race, Media, and Violence: Differential Racial Effects of Exposure to Violent News Stories - Basic and Applied Social Psychology

An experiment was conducted to assess whether effects of exposure to violent media information would vary as a function of target person race. Participants were exposed to violent or nonviolent media information and subsequently made judgments of a violent act committed by a Black, White, or race unspecified man. The most relevant findings indicated that perceptions did not vary as a function of violence exposure for the White and race unspecified defendant. On the other hand, for Black defendants, participants exposed to violent information made attributions of his behavior that were more dispositional than those exposed to nonviolent information. The findings also indicated that when compared to men, women tended to make attributions of defendant behavior that were more dispositional. Finally, when compared to attributions of the White defendant's behavior, attributions of the Black defendant were more dispositional.

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12 Sep 06

Survivor TV Show - Next season's teams to be divided by race

  • I understand this is a hasty judgment, but at first glance I think this is horrible and divisive idea. Reinforces segregation based on increasingly false retroactive biological and folk knowledge. I think we need to ask ourselves, what good will this broadcasted racial division do? In this article they argue increased ethnic pride. Is it necessary to represent ethnic pride by pitting races against each other in what is at surface level a 'fight for survival'? Just some thoughts... - abo46n2 on 2006-09-12
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