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  2. Guyanese people - Wikipedia

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    The diversity of the country is a point of pride as well as a challenge; conflicts along racial lines have been a source of significant social tension. Racism in Guyana has roots in the control of labour, so that plantation owners could maintain a stratified society of subservient workers and limit competition for the highest social class.

  3. Race and health in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Asian American cancer burden is unique as they are the only racial/ethnic population to experience cancer as the leading cause of death and it has unusual aspects such as experiencing proportionally more cancers of infectious origin, such as human papillomavirus‐induced cervical cancer, hepatitis B virus‐induced liver cancer, and ...

  4. Race and health - Wikipedia

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    At a minimum, researchers should describe if race was assessed by self-report, proxy report, extraction from records, or direct observation. Race was also often used questionable, such as an indicator of socioeconomic status. [102] Racial genetic explanations may be overemphasized, ignoring the interaction with and the role of the environment ...

  5. How structural medical racism perpetuates Asian American ...

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    When Susan Shinagawa found a pea-sized lump in her right breast, she said her doctor refused to diagnose her with cancer because, she recalled him saying, “Asia How structural medical racism ...

  6. Medical racism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Medical racism in the United States encompasses discriminatory and targeted medical practices, as well as misrepresentations in medical education, usually driven by biases based on characteristics of patients' race and ethnicity.

  7. Racism in South America - Wikipedia

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    These groups of people were both used as labor for British colonists, however they both had different stereotypes given to them which affected how one race viewed the other. [15] Racial tensions in Guyana started to divide more when it came to politics. After the British left and Guyana was freed, the government in Guyana was completely split.

  8. As a Black breast cancer survivor, Ericka Hart felt unseen ...

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    "Breast cancer patients are so often painted as walking inspirational beings, thus effacing any opportunity to be seen as sexy or erotic. I resist the notion that because my nipples are now long ...

  9. Dougla people - Wikipedia

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    Within the West Indies context, the word is used only for one type of mixed race people: Afro-Indians. [2] The 2012 Guyana census identified 29.25% of the population as Afro-Guyanese, 39.83% as Indo-Guyanese, and 19.88% as "mixed," recognized as mostly representing the offspring of the former two groups. [3]