Beyond Tuskegee — Vaccine Distrust and Everyday Racism

Racism and research: the case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

In 1932 the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) initiated an experiment in Macon County, Alabama, to determine the natural course of untreated, latent syphilis in black males. The test comprised 400 syphilitic men as well as 200 uninfected men who served as controls. The first published report of the study appeared in 1936 with subsequent papers issued every four to six years through the 1960s. ...

Tuskegee Syphilis Study

Racism, Differentialism, and Antiracism in Everyday Ideology: A Mixed-Methods Study in Britain

Perceived everyday racism, residential segregation, and HIV testing among patients at a sexually transmitted disease clinic.

OBJECTIVES More than one quarter of HIV-infected people are undiagnosed and therefore unaware of their HIV-positive status. Blacks are disproportionately infected. Although perceived racism influences their attitudes toward HIV prevention, how racism influences their behaviors is unknown. We sought to determine whether perceiving everyday racism and racial segregation influence Black HIV testin...

Everyday violence, structural racism and mistreatment at the US-Mexico border.

Immigration laws that militarize communities may exacerbate ethno-racial health disparities. We aimed to document the prevalence of and ways in which immigration enforcement policy and militarization of the US-Mexico border is experienced as everyday violence. Militarization is defined as the saturation of and pervasive encounters with immigration officials including local police enacting immig...