Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States

Tuthill, Zelma Oyarvide

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“…Second, our findings point to the racial and gender implications of epigenomic stories, and the practices aligned with them. Science and biomedicine have long been marshaled against people of color, subjecting their bodies and lives to abuse and violence in the name of progress (Benjamin 2018;Pollock 2021). Scientists must acknowledge this history and consider the ongoing gendered and racial politics of their research if they hope to use epigenetics to help shift responsibility for health onto social structures.…”

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“…Concerns about how racism affects health have gained more widespread attention in recent years due to growing awareness of police violence and the unequal effects of the pandemic (Bailey, Feldman, and Bassett 2021), but of course these are not new issues. Groups including the Black Panther Party and Environmental and Reproductive Justice activists have a long history of organizing to highlight the embodied environmental and reproductive health impacts of systemic violence, as well as its effects on Indigenous sovereignty and Black liberation (Nelson 2011;Pollock 2021). This work is also foundational to the frameworks of Environmental Reproductive Justice (Hoover 2018;Di Chiro 2008;Walters et al 2011) and the Environmental Politics of Reproduction (Lappé, Jeffries Hein, and Landecker 2019), which build on Environmental and Reproductive Justice activism (SisterSong 2022) to address how racism, environmental exposures, and experiences of oppression shape lived experiences of reproduction and the sciences aligned with them.…”

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Epigenomic Stories: Evidence of Harm and the Social Justice Promises and Perils of Environmental Epigenetics

Fahey

Lappé

2022

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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This article develops the concept of epigenomic stories to analyze how scientists describe and study the relationships between environmental epigenetics, health inequities, and social justice. Based on a multisited ethnography of epigenetic knowledge production and its circulation across laboratories, clinics, and communities in the United States and Canada between 2016 and 2021, we build on Black feminist and science studies scholarship to convey the racial, gender, and epistemic consequences of epigenomic stories. We argue that these stories reflect how scientists position epigenetics as a way of providing biological evidence of social harms and shifting responsibilities from individuals to broader structures. Yet these stories also reflect the limits of epigenetic methods and models in effectively capturing and addressing lived experiences of oppression. Thus, while scientists envision epigenetics as a resource for social change, they do so in ways that privilege biological ways of knowing. In analyzing the values and power relations embedded in these practices, we argue that epigenomic stories reflect what is at stake socially, politically, and materially when we tell stories with science. We contend that efforts to mobilize epigenetic knowledge for social justice must therefore center marginalized peoples’ knowledge and experiences and address how racism and sexism shape science and its social consequences.

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Epigenomic Stories: Evidence of Harm and the Social Justice Promises and Perils of Environmental Epigenetics

Fahey

Lappé

2022

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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“…However, elsewhere Meer asserts that racism adversely impacts life chances and social outcomes that have significant consequences for health (2022: 88). Therefore, while ethnic health inequalities are biological insofar as they are somatic events experienced in an embodied manner, racism is the significant contributory social factor (Pollock, 2021). Moreover, 'stigma' and 'discrimination' are not social aspects of race, rather, people are stigmatised and discriminated against in a given social context and a manner that references ascribed racial characteristics.…”

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Race as injustice and the im/possibility of racial justice

Louis

2023

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This review essay presents exposition and analysis of Nasar Meer’s, The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice. I outline Meer’s argument detailing the historical emergence and ongoing social reproduction of racial injustice in relation to nation formation, endemic racism, health inequalities, restrictions on refugees and asylum, and White supremacism as pervasive throughout western societies. I suggest that Meer’s intervention usefully highlights racial injustice as normalised instead of exceptional and also raises the importance of white people divesting their racial privilege. Analytically, I argue that Meer’s book productively opens up a space to reflect on the efficacy of race as a normative category, both intrinsically and in relation to anti/racism. Furthermore, by demonstrating the inherent inequality of race, the book invites the reader to reflect on the coherence of a racialised ideal of justice.

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Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States

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Epigenomic Stories: Evidence of Harm and the Social Justice Promises and Perils of Environmental Epigenetics

Epigenomic Stories: Evidence of Harm and the Social Justice Promises and Perils of Environmental Epigenetics

Race as injustice and the im/possibility of racial justice

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