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The legal scholar Tanya Katerí Hernández has written that anti-Black racism has a lengthy and often violent history within the Hispanic/Latino community. [3] According to Hernández, anti-Black racism is not an individual problem but rather a "systemic problem within Latinidad" and that myths exist within the community that "mestizaje" exempts Hispanics/Latinos from racism.
The injustices of a criminal justice system disproportionately impact Black people; maintaining these racial disparities has a high cost for individuals, families, and communities. On an individual level, a criminal conviction may equate to loss of access to employment, housing, and public service opportunities.
The Associated Press spent a year examining how racial health disparities have harmed generations of Black Americans. WHY ARE BLACK BABIES AND MOTHERS MORE LIKELY TO DIE? Black women have the ...
Black pain in medicine links to the racial disparities between pain management and racial bias on behalf of the health professional. In 2011, Vermont organizers took a proactive stand against racism in their communities to defeat the biopolitical struggles faced on a daily basis. The first and only universal health care law was passed in the state.
The communities closest to these environmentally hazardous spaces are communities of low-income, people of color. [33] Located in East Houston, Harrisburg/Manchester and Galena Park are the two communities with the closest proximity to Risk Management Plan (RMP) facilities or facilities that use certain hazardous substances.
Iowa is nowhere near the US-Mexico border, but a new immigration law there mirrors parts of a measure passed in Texas. Immigrant communities are worried. A controversial Texas law has become a ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed and exacerbated inequalities through uneven effects across social domains. [11] Some of these impacts include disproportionate financial toll, crime, education, human rights, xenophobia and racism, disproportionate impacts by gender, and racial inequalities.
Texas' population growth between 2000 and 2010 represents the highest population increase, by number of people, for any U.S. state during this time period. At the 2020 United States census it was reported that Texas had a resident population of 29,145,505, [ 1 ] a 15.9% increase since the 2010 U.S. census .