Racial stereotyping persists, even after death
Racial stereotyping persists, even after death
- January 31, 2011
- A study co-authored by Andrew Noymer and Andrew Penner, sociologist assistant professors, is featured by TIME January 28, 2011
From TIME:
When coroners fill out a death certificate, they must make note of the race of the
deceased, but that can sometimes be a subjective call. A new study finds that officials'
perception of a person's race may be influenced by the way that person died. For the
study, researchers at U.C. Irvine and University of Oregon, Eugene, looked at data
from 22,905 death certificates in the 1993 National Mortality Followback Survey, which
compared information on official death certificates with information provided by family
members of the deceased: in 1.1% of cases, it turned out, family members said the
race noted on the death certificate was incorrect.
For the full story, please visit http://healthland.time.com/2011/01/28/racial-stereotyping-persists-even-....
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