Looking Back to Leap Forward
A Framework for Operationalizing the Structural Racism Construct in Minority and Immigrant Health Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8070059 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A C Dennis (0000-0001-6366-9850, corresponding author), Esther O Chung (0000-0002-2866-949X), Evans K Lodge (0000-0002-2222-5441), Rae Anne M Martinez (0000-0003-0262-1049), Rachel E Wilbur (0000-0002-3008-962X) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | Suppl |
| Pages | 301-310 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnicity & Disease (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-510X • E-ISSN: 1945-0826 |
| Publisher | Ethnicity & Disease, Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.18865/ed.31.s1.301 |
| PMID | 34045832 |
| OpenAlex | W3161323113 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
Racism is now widely recognized as a fundamental cause of health inequalities in the United States. As such, health scholars have rightly turned their attention toward examining the role of structural racism in fostering morbidity and mortality. However, to date, much of the empirical structural racism-health disparities literature limits the operationalization of structural racism to a single domain or orients the construct around a White/Black racial frame. This operationalization approach is incomprehensive and overlooks the heterogeneity of historical and lived experiences among other racial and ethnic groups. To address this gap, we present a theoretically grounded framework that illuminates core mutually reinforcing domains of structural racism that have stratified opportunities for health in the United States. We catalog instances of structural discrimination that were particularly constraining (or advantageous) to the health of racial and ethnic groups from the late 1400s to present. We then illustrate the utility of this framework by applying it to American Indians or Alaska Natives and discuss the framework's broader implications for empirical health research. This framework should help future scholars across disciplines as they identify and interrogate important laws, policies, and norms that have differentially constrained opportunities for health among racial and ethnic groups
Construct (python library · Criminology · Empirical research · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Health care · Health equity · Immigration · Operationalization · Political science · Racism · Sociology · Anthropology · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Health disparities and outcomes · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Gender Studies · Law · Social Psychology
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Racism and health care
Antiracist Practices Across the Stages of a Research Project
Racism Counterfactuals in Health Research
Measuring structural xenophobia
Racial/ethnic differences in the association between menthol cigarette use and mental illness among adults who smoke in the United States
The public health exposome and pregnancy-related mortality in the United States
Structural Inequity and Socioeconomic Status Link to Osteoporosis Diagnosis in a Population-Based Cohort of Middle-Older-Age Americans
Outside the Skin”
Patterns and Life Course Determinants of Black–White Disparities in Biological Age Acceleration
Race and Ethnicity, Racism, and Population Health in the United States
Promotive Factors Within Neighborhood, Family, and School Contexts for Adolescents Living in an Urban, High-Burden Community
Institutional Racism and Health
Multi-group data versus dual-side theory
The development, evolution, and maintenance of structural racism for the study of health inequities
Structural gendered racism and preterm birth inequities in the United States
Structural gendered racism as conceptualized by immigrant women in the United States
Residential Segregation and Framingham 30-Year Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among Black and White Young Adults in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health
Household Composition, Income, and Fast-Food Consumption among Black Women and Men
Broken Ties
African American Female Veterans Experiences with Perceived Racism Within the Veteran's Healthcare Administration
| Citations per year | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |