A new paper uses quantitative and qualitative analyses to assess how socioeconomic position and gender factor into reported racism among African Americans in New York City.
A new paper in the Review of Black Political Economy shows that Black real estate brokers in New York City face racial segregation in their real estate listings. The abstract is up on the publications page.
Naa Oyo A. Kwate will chair a conference at the Center for Race and Ethnicity entitled “The City as Health Policy,” to be held in the spring of 2016. The conference is made possible by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, for which Kwate serves as the Principal Investigator.
A new paper examining the ways in which NYPD officers classify Black women’s bodies has just been published in Race and Social Problems. It is available here.
Naa Oyo A. Kwate was one of four panelists at the New York City Food Policy Center’s Food Policy for Breakfast series on February 17. The panel examined how race, racism and residential segregation affect access to healthy food in NYC.
A paper investigating the effects racism has on African American mental health over time is published as a First Look (online ahead of publication) at the American Journal of Public Health.
Naa Oyo A. Kwate was interviewed for an article entitled “Alcoholic Ecology” in Issue 6 of The New City Reader: A Newspaper Of Public Space, published by the New Museum in New York City. You can read the issue online here.
Naa Oyo A. Kwate presented “Obesity and the Racial Tax: Disparities in Neighborhood Food Environments” at the Cancer Health Disparities Annual Meeting, NCI & Center to Reduce Cancer Disparities.
A paper investigating whether White residents in three Boston neighborhoods derive health benefits from inequality was published in Social Science and Medicine. It’s available here.
The first article from the Black LIFE Study was published (online first) in the Journal of Urban Health. The paper reports on RISE (Racism Still Exists), the racism “countermarketing” campaign designed as a public health intervention. It’s available here: