Thread by @societyforepi

It's encouraging that the field is beginning to make more room for scholarship on #StructuralRacism and health inequities. Just last year, @socscimed published a Special Issue on the topic compiled by @mhicken and others: sciencedirect.com/journal/social…
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One of the articles in the Special Issue is an article I published on residential segregation and racial health inequities in Brazil another, country rooted in the legacy of slavery, racism, and oppression...
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While similar to the U.S. in many ways, Brazil has a much more complex system of racialization based on a skin color continuum. Thus as a researcher, I could not transpose my ideas about race in the U.S. to Brazil. A lesson from #CriticalRaceTheory
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Yet I found, that racism in Brazil, just like in the U.S., creates a system of discrimination, limited opportunity, and racial violence that it is detrimental to health and produces stark inequities.
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Take for instance residential segregation...
When taking a 20-minute train ride one can be in two different worlds with different resources and different people. I know. Because I did.
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Our data reflected this phenomenon: Blacks followed by Browns, were more likely than Whites to live in highly segregated neighborhood environments.
This isn't biology folks, this is #StructuralRacism. And it is highly predictable.
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Take away message from this ongoing research: Racism is GLOBAL.

...And it is also DEADLY. Check back in at 9p for my parting reflections for the day...
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