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[https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2103519118 by Kyshia Henderson 11/10/21 PNAS] | [https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2103519118 by Kyshia Henderson 11/10/21 PNAS] | ||
The fight over Confederate monuments has fueled lawsuits, protests, counterprotests, arrests, even terrorism, as we painfully saw in August 2017 in Charlottesville, VA. The fight rests on a debate over whether these monuments represent racism (“hate”) or something ostensibly devoid of racism (“heritage,” “Southern pride”). | The fight over Confederate monuments has fueled lawsuits, protests, counterprotests, arrests, even terrorism, as we painfully saw in August 2017 in Charlottesville, VA. The fight rests on a debate over whether these monuments represent racism (“hate”) or something ostensibly devoid of racism (“heritage,” “Southern pride”). | ||
=====We carry history within us: Anti-Black racism and the legacy of lynchings on life expectancy in the U.S. South===== | |||
[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1353829221001143 by Laura Kihlström 7/21 ScienceDirect] | |||
The United States lags in life expectancy compared to most of the world's similarly wealthy nations, driven by pronounced regional disparities particularly between the South and the rest of the country. The U.S. South has a violent history of lynchings of Black Americans by White mobs after the ending of slavery and up to the Civil Rights Era. Building on critical race scholarship, the objective of this study was to determine whether there exists an association between historical lynchings and overall life expectancies in the U.S. | |||
