Racism as a Public Health Crisis

How Declarations Shape Local TV News Attention to Racism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6404615
AutoresNatália De Paula Moreira (0000-0002-8544-1133, Wesleyan University), Samuel Taylor Moore (0000-0002-5040-3225, Wesleyan University), Steven Moore (0000-0002-5256-0339, Wesleyan University), Breeze Floyd (0009-0008-2493-295X, Wesleyan University), Erika Franklin Fowler (0000-0003-3141-572X, Wesleyan University), Sarah E Gollust (0000-0001-6109-5953, University of Minnesota School of Public Health)
Año2026
Volumen62
Número1
Páginas18-52
Fecha de publicación2026-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaUrban Affairs Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/10780874251330267
OpenAlexW4410189556
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas41

Since 2020, many local, state, and federal governments have passed resolutions or formal statements that officially declared racism as a public health crisis in their communities. These declarations have created opportunities to raise public awareness about the harmful consequences of racism and have provided a platform for advocates and policymakers to propose policies and allocate resources to address the problem. This study contributes to our understanding of these declarations in two ways. First, it examines the political and sociodemographic factors that predict the enactment of a declaration at the media market-level. Second, it analyzes the impact of such declarations on local TV news coverage of racism. We find that markets with a higher percentage of votes for Trump in 2016 were less likely to enact a declaration, as were markets with higher percentages of uninsured and Black populations. Time series models indicate that declarations were associated with more attention to racism on local TV news, particularly in the short term, which is an important political consequence of enacting declarations

Criminology · Political science · Public health · Racism · Sociology · Gender Studies · Media Influence and Politics · Media Studies and Communication · Medicine · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research