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Confronting COVID-19, State Violence and Anti-Blackness: The Endemic Virus of Structural Racism

Posted on July 20th, 2020 · Posted in The Discriminatory Impact of COVID-19

The devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on African Americans cannot be understood without comprehending how anti-Blackness continues to shape the contours of their life chances. The legacy of connecting…  

Essential Work, Disposable Lives: Latino Invisibility, Black Lives, and Coalition Politics in the Age of Covid-19

Posted on July 19th, 2020 · Posted in The Discriminatory Impact of COVID-19

Introduction In early April 2020, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reported that Latinos—people of Latin American ancestry living in the United States—were the hardest hit…  

Ingredients for a Perfect Storm: When Racism, Discrimination and Health Collide – The Case of COVID-19

Posted on July 18th, 2020 · Posted in The Discriminatory Impact of COVID-19

On January 21, 2020, the first case of the novel coronavirus renamed COVID-19 was confirmed in the United States (ABCNews, n.d.). On February 26, 2020, the CDC confirmed the first…  

Asian Americans and COVID-19: What We Still Need to Know about Race and Racial Exclusion in America

Posted on July 17th, 2020 · Posted in The Discriminatory Impact of COVID-19

The story of the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 among Asian New Yorkers highlights how much we still do not know about this population and why we need a comparative lens…  

It is Negligent to Solely Blame Preexisting Health Conditions for COVID-19’s Burden on Black Americans

Posted on May 4th, 2020 · Posted in COVID 19, Student Forum

COVID-19’s arrival in the United States has made it impossible to ignore that Black Americans are disproportionately burdened by disease and death. Yet, there is still a lack of understanding…  

Maternal Mortality in the United States

Posted on December 9th, 2019 · Posted in Student Forum

Worldwide, there have been  improvements and innovations in healthcare around the world which have led to a decline in the number of women dying from childbirth over the last 30…  

Researching Asian Poverty in New York

Posted on December 9th, 2019 · Posted in Student Forum

There is a lack of disaggregated data on Asian poverty in New York City. Asians in poverty are hidden behind the veil of the “model minority” stereotype, which masks the…  

Policing the New York City Subway

Posted on December 2nd, 2019 · Posted in Student Forum

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo believes one of the pivotal social problems beseeching New York City is public transit fare evasion. With Mayor Bill de Blasio’s support, the city employed…  

White Nationalism: From ‘Fringe Ideology’ to National Security Threat

Posted on October 30th, 2019 · Posted in Student Forum

On August 3 2019, Patrick Crusius, a 21-year-old from Allen, Texas, drove roughly 11 hours across the state to El Paso, where he opened fired in a Walmart, killing 22…  

Race, Policing and Black Lives

After Barack Obama was elected as the first African American president in a historic election in 2008, several pundits asserted that the country was entering a post-racial era where race…