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2 - Health Disparities Based on Race and Disability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2022

Mary Crossley
Mary Crossley
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
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One Saturday morning in summer 2020, I was savoring the nonurgency of getting out of bed. I eventually rolled over, checked my phone, and opened Twitter to see the latest count of local coronavirus cases; instead, something in the “trending” column caught my eye. “Chadwick Boseman, RIP.” My immediate reaction was disbelief. That couldn’t be. How could the young, handsome, vigorous superhero be gone? I didn’t know his full body of work then, but later learned of an oeuvre that included a long list of roles. I simply knew Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa, or Black Panther. How could this embodiment of African Black Pride be returned to dust at a mere forty-three years of age?

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Discrimination and healthmedical implicit biascosts of health disparitiesbarriers to health care access
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Embodied Injustice
Race, Disability, and Health
 , pp. 15 - 40
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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