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Deadric T. Williams retweeted
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Black people survived things no one should have to endure
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A peer-reviewed study found Black patients matched with Black doctors were 27% less likely to die in the hospital. A separate study found Black residents live longer in counties with more Black primary care physicians. “Find A Black Doctor” exists because the disparities are real
May 21
A white doctor based in Colorado has teamed up with a conservative legal group to sue the online directory, “Find A Black Doctor,” for allegedly discriminating against physicians based on... dlvr.it/TSfSj0
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Three things that limit our understanding of racism and race in the United States.
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(3) the overuse and misuse of the term "identity." This term has become a way to perform backdoor essentialism. It reduces socially constructed attributes as if they are hobbies (backpacker, kayaker, mountain climber, etc ).
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These three things render racism as a system invisible, and sustain the status quo.
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This is special to me. My last talk of the semester. I spent 9 1/2 years at the University of Nebraska.
This is virtual and the website includes a link to register.
news.unl.edu/article/william…
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1/2 "Race" is not a predictor or risk factor to hypothesize that an outcome will happen; "race" is the outcome that tells us that something has already happened.
Something == racism as a system and racial as processes (e.g., racialization).
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2/2 If these types of statements tickle your intellectual fantasy, then you may want to attend this on Thursday. 👇🏾
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Putting my metaphorical feet in the water of X to gauge the temperature. I've missed three academic engagements.
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3 Jul 2025
Causal modeling limits our theoretical and analytical imagination regarding racial inequality. Settler colonialism and the Transatlantic slave trade caused racial inequality. Our job now is to understand the mechanisms maintaining racial inequality.
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22 Jun 2025
The study of racism is how disinformation becomes normalized via ideologies, beliefs, laws, and social practices. And that disinformation gets stitched into the American fabric and presented to the population as if it is universally true.
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Deadric T. Williams retweeted
18 Jun 2025
Considering what MOST Americans did during slavery, Indian removal, Reconstruction, the lynching epidemic, Jim Crow era & JD Vance's futon phase...
How long before MOST people recognize that America is in its fascist era? dlvr.it/TLQ5CG
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18 Jun 2025
The creation of racial categories should be viewed as a human rights violation. Because they standardized and normalized subjugation.
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Deadric T. Williams retweeted
14 Jun 2025
Millennials say they want to work at companies that value diversity. But what kind of diversity matters most? Read on for answers in my latest column for Forbes.com.
@forbes forbes.com/sites/adiaharveyw…
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Deadric T. Williams retweeted
1 Jun 2025
Why U.S. policies like baby bonds and child tax credits can’t convince Americans to have kids cnb.cx/44ZTmSH
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1 Jun 2025
🚨new publication alert🚨
Super proud of @DeonteSoc on his first publication. This paper is an adapted version of his Masters thesis. Great work!
1 Jun 2025
My first publication, co-authored with @doc_thoughts is out in Journal of Family issues! We examine poverty and religious attendance trajectories for Black mothers over time and what associations these trajectories have with Black mothers’ relationships with their children.
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20 Mar 2025
It took me a while to realize this but the "Moving to Opportunity" project is rooted in racial essentialism. That's why I have a hard time grappling with those studies.
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