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- Title
Office of Management and Budget Racial/Ethnic Categories in Mortality Research: A Framework for Including the Voices of Racialized Communities.
- Authors
Hayes-Bautista, David E.; Bryant, Mara; Yudell, Michael; Hayes-Bautista, Teodocia Maria; Partlow, Keosha; Popejoy, Alice Beecher; Burchard, Esteban; Hsu, Paul
- Abstract
Since its founding, the US government has sorted people into racial/ethnic categories for the purpose of allowing or disallowing their access to social services and protections. The current Office of Management and Budget racial/ethnic categories originated in a dominant racial narrative that assumed a binary biological difference between Whites and non-Whites, with a hard-edged separation between them. There is debate about their continued use in researching group differences in mortality profiles and health outcomes: should we use them with modifications, cease using them entirely, or develop a new epistemology of human similarities and differences? This essay offers a research framework for including in these debates the daily lived experiences of the 110 million racialized non-White Americans whose lived experiences are the legacy of historically limited access to society's services and protections. The experience of Latinos in California is used to illustrate the major elements of this framework that may have an effect on mortality and health outcomes: a subaltern fuzzy-edged multivalent racial narrative, agency, voice, and community and cultural resilience.
- Subjects
RACISM; HEALTH services accessibility; GOVERNMENT regulation; DEBATE; THEORY of knowledge; HEALTH status indicators; CONCEPTUAL structures; ETHNIC groups; DEATH; SOCIAL services; MEDICAL research; PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2021, Vol 111, pS133
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.2021.306361