Article
Inheriting Racist Disparities in Health
2013-07-01
Abstract excerpt
Abstract This article examines how people of color can biologically inherit the deleterious effects of white racism. Drawing primarily on the field of epigenetics, I demonstrate how transgenerational racial disparities are in fact racist disparities that can be manifest physiologically, helping constitute the chemicals, hormones, cells, and fibers of the human body. Epigenetics can be used to demonstrate how white...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 47367fbe-0188-55ac-955b-ec249f0ee470
- DOI
- 10.5325/critphilrace.1.2.0190