Remembering Past Lessons about Structural Racism — Recentering Black Theorists of Health and Society

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Imagine your city is being ravaged by an infectious disease epidemic whose morbidity and mortality are disproportionately borne by Black Americans. A prominent scholar of health disparities reports that this “strikingly excessive rate,” often misattributed to putative biologic or genetic differences between Black and White bodies, must be understood as a spotlight illuminating the fundamental racial inequities in American society. This structural impact of race and racism as social determinants of health, rather than any biology of racial difference, confers on Black Americans a higher risk of getting sick and lower chances of having access to or adequate service from the health care system.

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