TY - JOUR
T1 - Office of Management and Budget Racial/Ethnic Categories in Mortality Research
T2 - A Framework for Including the Voices of Racialized Communities
AU - Hayes-Bautista, David E.
AU - Bryant, Mara
AU - Yudell, Michael
AU - Hayes-Bautista, Teodocia Maria
AU - Partlow, Keosha
AU - Popejoy, Alice Beecher
AU - Burchard, Esteban
AU - Hsu, Paul
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was based on findings from a consensus panel conference grant (1 R13 MD012760-01) from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Pilot studies were funded by the White Memorial Charitable Foundation, and the conference was implemented by the Adventist Health White Memorial Center for Hispanic Health.
Funding Information:
We acknowledge the support of Seira Santizo-Greenwood, Adriana Valdez, Giselle Hernández, Elias Rodríguez, Stephanie Hernández, and Cynthia Chamberlin from the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Hector Flores, Mary Anne Chern, and Michael Jordan from Adventist Health White Memorial.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/7/1
Y1 - 2021/7/1
N2 - Since its founding, the US government has sorted people into racial/ethnic categories for the purpose of allowing or disallowing their access to social services and protections. The current Office of Management and Budget racial/ethnic categories originated in a dominant racial narrative that assumed a binary biological difference between Whites and non-Whites, with a hard-edged separation between them. There is debate about their continued use in researching group differences in mortality profiles and health outcomes: should we use them with modifications, cease using them entirely, or develop a new epistemology of human similarities and differences? This essay offers a research framework for including in these debates the daily lived experiences of the 110 million racialized non-White Americans whose lived experiences are the legacy of historically limited access to society's services and protections. The experience of Latinos in California is used to illustrate the major elements of this framework that may have an effect on mortality and health outcomes: a subaltern fuzzy-edged multivalent racial narrative, agency, voice, and community and cultural resilience.
AB - Since its founding, the US government has sorted people into racial/ethnic categories for the purpose of allowing or disallowing their access to social services and protections. The current Office of Management and Budget racial/ethnic categories originated in a dominant racial narrative that assumed a binary biological difference between Whites and non-Whites, with a hard-edged separation between them. There is debate about their continued use in researching group differences in mortality profiles and health outcomes: should we use them with modifications, cease using them entirely, or develop a new epistemology of human similarities and differences? This essay offers a research framework for including in these debates the daily lived experiences of the 110 million racialized non-White Americans whose lived experiences are the legacy of historically limited access to society's services and protections. The experience of Latinos in California is used to illustrate the major elements of this framework that may have an effect on mortality and health outcomes: a subaltern fuzzy-edged multivalent racial narrative, agency, voice, and community and cultural resilience.
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U2 - 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306361
DO - 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306361
M3 - Article
C2 - 34314200
AN - SCOPUS:85111331709
SN - 0090-0036
VL - 111
SP - S133-S140
JO - American journal of public health
JF - American journal of public health
IS - S2
ER -