This essay explores the intersections of race, weather and climate. Earth science construes as temperature precipitation that impacts environments. Thinking about how this applies to bodies has come into vogue in trying understand disproportionate number COVID-19 infections deaths for Blacks Latinx people. Arline Geronimus pioneered 1992 when she transposed notion “weathering” from its standard...

We measure the effects of firm policies on racial pay differences in Brazil. Non-Whites are less likely to be hired by high-wage firms, explaining about 20 percent wage gap for both genders. Firm-specific premiums non-Whites also compressed relative Whites, contributing another 5 that gap. A counterfactual analysis reveals two-thirds underrepresentation at higher-wage firms is explained race-ne...

Reductants (0.1-2.0% ascorbic acid, cysteine, or cystine and 0.04-1. 0% beta-mercaptoethanol) were added to 5-fold diluted, salted duck egg whites (commercially and laboratory prepared) and fresh egg whites (chicken and duck), and subsequently the mixtures were heated at 70 degrees C for 1-10 min. The maximal recovery and purification fold of lysozyme obtained from fresh chicken egg whites adde...

background: to test if social support and ethnicity mediate/moderate the association between religion involvement and subjective health in the united states. methods: this is a secondary analysis of national survey of american life, 2003. hierarchical regression was fit to a national household probability sample of adult african americans ( n = 3570), caribbean blacks ( n = 1621), and whites ( ...

Second-generation black Americans have been inadequately studied in prior quantitative research. The authors seek to ameliorate this research gap by using the Current Population Survey investigate education and wages among second-generation with a focus on Nigerian Americans. latter group has identified some qualitative studies as having particularly notable socioeconomic attainments. results i...

The health effects of economic resources (eg, education, employment, and living place) and psychological assets (eg, self-efficacy, perceived control over life, anger control, and emotions) are well-known. This article summarizes the results of a growing body of evidence documenting Blacks’ diminished return, defined as a systematically smaller health gain from economic resources and psychologi...

background: although the association between major depressive disorder (mdd) and low self-esteem is well established, we do not know if race and ethnicity modify the magnitude of this link. objectives: using a nationally representative sample of adults in the united states, we explored whether or not race alters the association between mdd and self-esteem. materials and methods: data came from ...

• Whites' affiliation predicts perceived understanding of Blacks' racial experiences. • Self-image goals mediate the effect of affiliation on perceived understanding. • Whites and Blacks disagree about how well Whites understand racial experiences. • Differences in affiliation cause divergent perceptions of understanding. a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o Four studies investigated whether t...

Background: Although the association between major depressive disorder (MDD) and low self-esteem is well established, we do not know if race and ethnicity modify the magnitude of this link. Objectives: Using a nationally representative sample of adults in the United States, we explored whether or not race alters the association between MDD and self-esteem. Materials and Methods: Data came...