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Black American children have the highest rate of infant-mortality, preterm-births, & low-birthweight — relative to all other races in the US.
Research by James Collins MD
uncovered that racism/racial-stress (via allostatic load) upon black mothers is the direct & leading cause. https://twitter.com/EastRenaissance/status/1196791707305697280
Research by James Collins MD
uncovered that racism/racial-stress (via allostatic load) upon black mothers is the direct & leading cause. https://twitter.com/EastRenaissance/status/1196791707305697280
One could write a mile-long thread of how socio-structural racism harms/kills pregnant black moms & their infants, including its effects on gene-expression (epigenticalling altering future inheritance).
One would tweet forever in order to unpack the full epigenetic impacts of racism on DNA/telomere length, on lifespans, life-outcomes, & more.
One would tweet forever in order to unpack the anti-black racism in & by the healthcare system.
One would tweet forever in order to unpack the anti-black racism in & by the healthcare system.
One would tweet forever in order to unpack the acute cognitive-impairment in the classroom from 1) ‘stereotype threat’ (Claude Steele) & 2) microaggressions (Princeton; Salvatore & Shelton).
One would tweet forever to unpack the racism in NIH funding re: sickle cell vs CF.
One would tweet forever to unpack the racism in NIH funding re: sickle cell vs CF.
One would tweet forever to cover the full spectrum, severity, & toll of how anti-black racism IN AMERICA operates as an insidious—& I do not say this lightly—slow-genocide upon black Americans, whereas black Africans in the direst places of Africa do not experience any such toll.
The scholarly literature is all out there, much of it publicly available. So, tweets wouldn’t even be necessary if America’s major-media system actually cared to report about this insidious horrors ongoing upon black America by the daily acts of implicit & explicit racism.
https://ethndis.org/priorarchives/ethn-21-03-370.pdf
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199710233371706#t=article
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3417124/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3504172/
https://psmag.com/social-justice/racism-is-real-and-it-is-making-black-americans-less-healthy
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199710233371706#t=article
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3417124/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3504172/
https://psmag.com/social-justice/racism-is-real-and-it-is-making-black-americans-less-healthy
And when I say that such forms of anti-Black racism IN THE US are slow-genocide, I specifically refer not only to the epigenetic (& therefore long term) impacts, but to cancer, to changes every organ system, to BP, & far more.
