Racial stereotypes can follow us to the grave, researchers say

Racial stereotypes can follow us to the grave, researchers say
- January 28, 2011
- A study by Andrew Noymer and Andrew Penner, sociology assistant professors, is featured in the Los Angeles Times and five additional publications January 26, 2011
From the LA Times:
Can cause of death determine race? In some cases, the answer appears to be yes. When
coroners and undertakers fill out death certificates, one of the pieces of information
they must provide is the race of the deceased. That can be a somewhat subjective call,
and one of the things that may influence an official's perception of it is the particular
way the person died, according to a team of sociologists from UC Irvine and the University
of Oregon in Eugene. They looked at data from 22,905 death certificates in the 1993
National Mortality Followback Survey, which compared information on official certificates
to information provided by family members to see if it matched.
For the full story, please visit http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-racial-stereotype-caus...
Also ran in:
- Baltimore Sun
- Bioscience Technology
- FOX 43
- Health Canal
- Sun Sentinel
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