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CFP 48 - Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Intersecting Margins: Comparative Health of African Diasporas and Racial Minorities in the Americas
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Sponsor: Health, Health Policy, and Health Services

Organizer &

Presider/Discussant: Raja Staggers-Hakim, University of Connecticut

Description: 

This session explores the comparative health outcomes of African diasporic and other racialized minority populations across the United States, Canada, and South America. Grounded in medical sociology and public health, and drawing on a comparative framework, presenters will analyze how intersections of race, region, and citizenship status shape health disparities between marginalized groups—including African diasporic, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian communities—and dominant populations. Case studies will include comparisons of African Americans and recent African immigrants in the U.S., as well as parallels in health challenges faced by Black Brazilians and Black Canadians, highlighting the structural, social, and transnational forces driving health inequities across the Americas.

Papers:

“Applying Racism Trauma Health Theory to Explore the Impact of Racism on Insulin Resistance and Mediating Correlates in Black Populations of the CARDIA Study,” Pu Zhao, Raja Staggers-Hakim and Ryan Talbert, University of Connecticut

“Colourism-Related Experiences, Skin Tone Preferences, and Skin-Lightening Behaviors in Young Adults,” Atinuke Arinola Ajani and Macellina Yinyinade Ijadunola, Obafemi Awolowo University

“Health Outcomes among Descendants of Enslaved Africans in the Americas and the Caribbean: The Importance of Slavery and the Persistence of Racism,” Raja Staggers-Hakim, University of Connecticut

“Reimagining Care and Wellness Support for Black Women: Addressing Collective Racial Trauma, Misogyny, and Violence in the Context of Post-COVID U.S. Society,” Shani K. Saxon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Marya R. Sosulski, Michigan State University School of Social Work

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