The Myth of Black Immunity: Racialized Disease during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Project Description
Via participant observation and interviews, Chelsey Carter identifies the ways COVID 19 has been racialized in St. Louis. Ezelle Sanford III, Assistant Professor of African American History at Carnegie Mellon University, collaborates with Carter. Recent articles are Racialized Disease and pandemic, The Myth of Black Immunity, and From Spanish Flu to COVID-19: Race, Class, and the Reopening of St. Louis.
Translational Perspective
This project aims to show community members and researchers the ways that race drives our understandings of health, healing and medicine.
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Contact Infomation: First name
Chelsey
Contact Information: Last name
Carter
Contact Information: Position title
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University (July 2021)
Contact Information: Institutional affiliation
Washington University in St. Louis
Contact Information: Email address
crcarter [at] wustl.edu
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City/State/Country
St. Louis, Missouri, USA