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The Color Line: Race Matters in the Elimination of Health Disparities

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dc.creator Thomas, Stephen B
dc.date 2019-08-14T14:59:07Z
dc.date 2019-08-14T14:59:07Z
dc.date 2001
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-20T08:38:48Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-20T08:38:48Z
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.13016/p55g-ljsf
dc.identifier Thomas, Stephen B (2001) The Color Line: Race Matters in the Elimination of Health Disparities. American Journal of Public Health, 91 (7). pp. 1046-1048.
dc.identifier 0090-0036
dc.identifier Eprint ID 373
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1903/22501
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/117658
dc.description The “color line” is not fixed but ripples through time, finding expression at distinct stages of our development as a nation. As the meaning of race has changed over time, its burdens and privileges have shifted among population groups. At one time in our history, for instance, the Irish and Italians were considered “non-White,” along with other immigrants who were not descendants of the early Anglo-Saxon Protestant settlers. In this issue of the Journal, Gerald Oppenheimer traces the color line through the course of American history.1 He demonstrates how the original language of White racial differences began with the anxious response of early Americans to waves of immigration, beginning in the 1840s when the Irish (or Celts) entered US ports, followed by nationals from Central, Southern, and Eastern Europe. Over time, the descendants of these “White ethnic groups” became the monolithic Caucasian race, the majority population, superior in all respects to the Black people of African descent.1
dc.description https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.91.7.1046?view=long&pmid=11441728
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dc.subject Practice
dc.subject Disparities
dc.subject Health
dc.subject color line
dc.subject race
dc.subject race matters
dc.subject elimination of health disparities
dc.subject health disparities
dc.subject health disparity
dc.subject elimination
dc.subject black
dc.subject African descent
dc.subject blacks
dc.subject African Americans
dc.title The Color Line: Race Matters in the Elimination of Health Disparities
dc.type Article


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