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To introduce an evolutionary-ecological framework demonstrating how structural racism operates through niche construction to drive biological health disparities across racialized groups.

January 1, 2023Evolution Medicine and Public HealthOpen Access

Embedded racism: Inequitable niche construction as a neglected evolutionary process affecting health

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To introduce an evolutionary-ecological framework demonstrating how structural racism operates through niche construction to drive biological health disparities across racialized groups.
Applied principles of niche construction theory to model internal and external biological feedback systems across human evolutionary and social history.
Synthesized ecological models of niche exclusion and exploitation with institutional and interpersonal mechanisms of socially constructed race.
Characterized structural racism as an evolutionary mismatch that systematically embeds societal inequities into physiological and life-history processes.
Demonstrated that discriminatory social environments function as pathogenic forces, producing disparate disease outcomes without requiring genetic definitions of race.

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Theoretical analysis reveals structural racism drives disease in marginalized populations, highlighting how inequitable niche construction alters biological pathways.

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Henry et al. (2023) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0c76c13b45b6e8088876fb https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoad007

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Theoretical analysis reveals structural racism drives disease in marginalized populations, highlighting how inequitable niche construction alters biological pathways.

Embedded racism: Inequitable niche construction as a neglected evolutionary process affecting health

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