Infant Mortality & The Stresses Of Everyday Racism

I think that the national discussion about racism and health care reform sometimes gets so abstract that we forget that when we’re talking about health, we’re talking about people’s lives. And, as this short clip (about 4 minutes) demonstrates very powerfully, leading researchers contend that racism plays an important role in infant mortality among African American women, even when controlling for income and education. This clip, from Episode 2, “When the Bough Breaks,” in the video series “U...

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