Excited to share our new paper from the Texas Rural Health and Heritage project - “The plantation system and the roots of the southern rural mortality penalty in the northern Blackland Prairies of Texas.” @robingnelson @AWRgenessciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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My new preprint with @robingnelson and @AWRgenes from our Texas Rural Health Project: “The Plantation System and the Roots of the Southern Rural Mortality Penalty.” osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/xk…
We collected & analyzed vital records data from post-emancipation period Texas, when emerging forms of plantation labor such as tenant farming, convict leasing, & migrant labor were developed to sustain the plantation economy after the abolishment of chattel slavery.
We find that the plantation system accounts for nearly all the variation in mortality that exists across the rural/urban divide in the Blackland Prairies of Texas, elucidating the historical processes underlying the emergence of rural health disparities in the region.
Looking forward to an exciting afternoon on the final day of #SINGCanada2023. A couple more sessions, and then we will be celebrating this amazing group!
Our #SINGCanada2023 programming concludes with our Alumni Panel reflecting on the impacts of @canada_sing, this year featuring @cheyenneithomas @experemony and Arlana Redsky
Day 3 of #SINGCanada2023 began with lab work and our afternoon continues with a series of lectures on ethics and their discontents. @JessKolopenuk kicks us off with “Vanilla Ethics: Institutional Research Ethics”.