{"id":25682,"date":"2010-08-11T10:06:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T15:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=25682"},"modified":"2013-12-05T04:10:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T09:10:00","slug":"how-racism-against-blacks-hurts-whites-the-kidney-failure-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/08\/11\/how-racism-against-blacks-hurts-whites-the-kidney-failure-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Racialized Space: Whites, Blacks, and Kidney Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

White people should worry about racism.\u00a0 They should worry about racism because it’s wrong.\u00a0 But if that’s not enough of a motivation, they should worry about it for their own damn good.\u00a0 Philip Cohen of Family Inequality<\/a> shows us how so with a discussion of a recent paper<\/a> published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Figure below illustrates the percentage of black (grey bar) and white (white bar) residents who went into end-stage renal disease (kidney failure; ESRD) before ever seeing a doctor specializing in kidneys (a nephrologist).\u00a0 As we move from left to right, the zip codes in which patients live becomes increasingly populated by black people.<\/p>\n

What we see is that, in any given neighborhood, black people are always less likely to get access to a kidney specialist before their kidneys fail; but also that white people living in a neighborhood with a higher percentage of blacks are less likely than whites in a more white neighborhood to see a specialist.\u00a0 So much so that whites living in neighborhoods that are more than 50% black are less likely to see a specialist than blacks living in neighborhoods that are less than 25% black.<\/p>\n

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Cohen specifies that…<\/p>\n

…the relationship still holds even when individual socioeconomic status, and local-area socioeconomic status, are controlled. So it\u2019s not just a poverty effect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Somehow places that are “blacker”, even when they are not poor, are serviced with inferior health care compared to places that are “whiter.”\u00a0 And everyone suffers for it (though not necessarily equally).<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

White people should worry about racism.\u00a0 They should worry about racism because it’s wrong.\u00a0 But if that’s not enough of a motivation, they should worry about it for their own damn good.\u00a0 Philip Cohen of Family Inequality shows us how so with a discussion of a recent paper published in the Journal of the American […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[252,8080,283,285,1760,1757],"class_list":["post-25682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-healthmedicine","tag-housingresidential-segregation","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25682"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59862,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25682\/revisions\/59862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}