1. Population change and the legacy of slavery Slavery established a particular pattern of racialization in the United States, one that helped build a hierarchy that placed whites above blacks in nearly all social, economic, and political spheres (e.g., Mandle, 1978; Melish, 1998; Tolnay, 201...
Left ventricular hypertrophy is more prevalent in blacks than whites in the general population: the Dallas Heart Study. Hypertension. 2005;46(1):124-12915939807PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 21. Abdullah SM, Khera A, Das SR, et al. Relation of coronary atherosclerosis determined by electron beam...
We define the Southwest as: Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. Given the confluence of race, ethnicity, and national origin, we use the term race/ethnicity. For a discussion as this relates to Census and ACS data, see Footnote 9. When discussing racial/eth...
Gaining a better understanding of how Asian entrepreneurship was impacted during the recent pandemic is of relevance for various reasons. First, Asians are the third largest race group in the USA, following Whites and Blacks, with approximately 24 million people comprising 7.2% of the population in...
The United States health care debate has focused on the nation's uniquely high rates of lack of insurance and poor health outcomes relative to other high-income countries. Large disparities in health outcomes are well-documented in the US, but the most r
Overall, Chicago's population is declining, but the city is becoming more racially diverse. Populations of people of Asian and Hispanic origin are growing, while the numbers of Caucasians and Blacks are decreasing. 04 of 20 Houston, Texas: Population 2,303,482 ...
The results showed that the MAPRRAPE was more reliable than air pollution concentration model in determining population exposure risks by demographic characteristics. The high risk areas of whites exposed to SO2 were larger than blacks and the other races due to a large number of whites, and ...
Long-term exposure to black carbon may induce shorter sleep duration in men and those with low socioeconomic status but longer sleep duration in blacks [17]. These discrepancies may result from different populations, study designs, pollutants, and, more importantly, methodologies of sleep evaluation...
Peter Claver Church in Tyler, Texas, December 20, 2016.(more) The two largest groups of Hispanics are Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans. More than half of all Hispanic Americans are of Mexican ancestry. Some of them descended from settlers in parts of the United States that were once part...
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