Racial capitalism: a fundamental cause of novel coronavirus (covid-19) pandemic inequities in the United States.

Laster Pirtle, Whitney N.

doi:10.1177/1090198120922942

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Racial capitalism: a fundamental cause of novel coronavirus (covid-19) pandemic inequities in the United States.

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Laster Pirtle, Whitney N.·2020·Health Education & Behavior

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Racial capitalism is a fundamental cause of the racial and socioeconomic inequities within the novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) in the United States. The overrepresentation of Black death reported in Detroit, Michigan is a case study for this argument. Racism and capitalism mutually construct harmful social conditions that fundamentally shape COVID-19 disease inequities because they (a) shape multiple diseases that interact with COVID-19 to influence poor health outcomes; (b) affect disease outcomes through increasing multiple risk factors for poor, people of color, including racial residential segregation, homelessness, and medical bias; (c) shape access to flexible resources, such as medical knowledge and freedom, which can be used to minimize both risks and the consequences of disease; and (d) replicate historical patterns of inequities within pandemics, despite newer intervening mechanisms thought to ameliorate health consequences. Interventions should address social inequality to achieve health equity across pandemics.

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Based on broader research in sociology of mental health, patterns of inequality and suicide are likely complex and not distillable to individual experiences with discrimination or prejudice.
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The section “B. Racial Capitalism Increases Multiple Disease Risk Factors” describes structural conditions and multiple exposures shaping health, and the concluding section urges attention beyond individual and interpersonal factors. These passages support the claim’s broader point that inequality cannot be reduced to individual experiences, but the paper addresses COVID-19 and health inequities, not patterns of suicide or sociology-of-mental-health findings specifically. No page numbers were available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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Authors: Laster Pirtle, W. N.
Affiliations: University of California Merced, Merced, CA, USA
ORCID: Laster Pirtle, Whitney N.
Venue: Health Education & Behavior
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2020-04-26
Volume: 47
Issue: 4
Pages: 504-508
ISSN: 1090-1981 (ISSN-L)
1552-6127
DOI: 10.1177/1090198120922942
PMC: PMC7301291
OpenAlex: W3019091879
Cited by: 619
References: 22
Citations by year: 2026: 17 · 2025: 52 · 2024: 62 · 2023: 95 · 2022: 168 · 2021: 156 · 2020: 69
FWCI: 163.20
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: hybrid
doi.org
Licence: cc-by
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (unspecified)
Locations: Health Education & Behavior (publishedVersion, cc-by)
PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
Social Sciences › Health › Public Health and Social Inequalities
Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
Keywords: racial capitalism, COVID-19 pandemic, health disparities, racial disparities in mortality, African Americans, Detroit, racial residential segregation, homelessness, medical bias, social determinants of health, health equity, structural racism
MeSH terms: Health Equity, Betacoronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Humans, Michigan, Pneumonia, Viral, Risk Factors, Socioeconomic Factors, United States, Coronavirus Infections, Capitalism, Health Status Disparities, Pandemics, Racism

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