Scientific Literacy and the Future of Ethnic Minority Groups in the United States: The Unfinished Civil Rights Movement

Depression is comorbid with anxiety, substance use, and medical conditions in majority and ethnic minority populations. Despite recognition of the growing diversity of racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States, there are significant mental health disparities among them. This chapter reviews literature on interventions of depressive disorders and other mental and medical health conditions in ethnic minority groups. It focuses on (1) the adult population, (1) treatment interventions, and (3) ethnic minority groups in the United States. This review illustrates that research on treatment of depression comorbidity is quite limited for ethnic minorities. Therefore this chapter also discusses how cultural adaptations of evidence-based interventions for major depression can further inform the extent to which interventions for depression comorbidity can be adapted for ethnic minority populations. Research gaps, recommendations, future directions, and treatment guidelines for practitioners related to depression comorbidity and ethnic minority groups are discussed.

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A Review of Diagnosis and Service Disparities Among Children With Autism From Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups in the United States

International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities ◽

10.1016/bs.irrdd.2018.08.003 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 145-180 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Amber M. Angell ◽

Allison Empey ◽

Katharine E. Zuckerman

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Ethnic Minority ◽

Minority Groups ◽

Children With Autism ◽

The United States ◽

Ethnic Minority Groups ◽

Racial And Ethnic Minority

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Cost and Utilization of Lung Cancer End‐of‐Life Care Among Racial‐Ethnic Minority Groups in the United States

The Oncologist ◽

10.1634/theoncologist.2019-0303 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Yufan Chen ◽

Steven D. Criss ◽

Tina R. Watson ◽

Andrew Eckel ◽

Lauren Palazzo ◽

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Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Lung Cancer ◽

Ethnic Minority ◽

End Of Life ◽

End Of Life Care ◽

Minority Groups ◽

The United States ◽

Life Care ◽

Ethnic Minority Groups ◽

Racial Ethnic

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A Demographic Analysis of Racial/Ethnic Minority Enrollment Into HVTN Preventive Early Phase HIV Vaccine Clinical Trials Conducted in the United States, 2002-2016

Public Health Reports ◽

10.1177/0033354918814260 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 134 (1) ◽

pp. 72-80 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Katherine Foy Huamani ◽

Barbara Metch ◽

Gail Broder ◽

Michele Andrasik

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Clinical Trials ◽

Ethnic Minority ◽

Minority Groups ◽

Phase 1 ◽

The United States ◽

Demographic Characteristics ◽

Hiv Vaccine ◽

Ethnic Minority Groups ◽

Racial Ethnic

Objectives: Racial/ethnic minority communities in the United States are overrepresented among new HIV diagnoses, yet their inclusion in preventive HIV vaccine clinical trials is inadequate. An analysis of enrollment demographic characteristics from US preventive HIV vaccine clinical trials from 1988 through 2002 showed that enrollment of racial/ethnic minority groups increased. We analyzed enrollment in preventive HIV vaccine clinical trials from 2002 through 2016 and compared our data with data from the previous study, described demographic characteristics of trial participants, and assessed how well this distribution reflected the racial/ethnic distribution of new HIV diagnoses in the United States. Methods: We examined data on demographic characteristics from 43 Phase 1 and Phase 2A preventive HIV vaccine clinical trials conducted in the United States and compared the results with those of the previous study. We also compared racial/ethnic distributions from 2011 through 2015 with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data on the number of new HIV diagnoses during the same period. Results: Of 3469 participants, 1134 (32.7%) identified as a racial/ethnic minority, a 94% increase from the previous period (634/3731; 17.0%). Percentage annual enrollment of all racial/ethnic minority participants fluctuated from 17% to 53% from mid-2002 to 2016. Percentages of new HIV diagnoses among the general population were 1.9 to 2.9 times the percentage enrollment of black participants and 1.3 to 6.6 times the percentage enrollment of Hispanic/Latino participants in clinical trials for the same period. Conclusions: Although enrollment of racial/ethnic minority groups into HIV vaccine clinical trials has increased, it is not proportional to the number of new HIV diagnoses among these groups. To enhance recruitment of racial/ethnic minority groups, the HIV Vaccine Trials Network has prioritized community partnerships and invested resources into staff training.

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Theory and Measurement of Foreigner Objectification

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190215217.013.9 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Joyce P. Lee ◽

Richard M. Lee ◽

Alisia G. T. T. Tran

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Physical Health ◽

Ethnic Minority ◽

Asian Americans ◽

Minority Groups ◽

The United States ◽

Psychological Research ◽

Ethnic Minority Groups ◽

Racial Ethnic ◽

Mental And Physical Health

This chapter investigates the phenomenon of foreigner objectification, or the labeling (implicit or otherwise) of members of racial/ethnic minority groups as foreigners regardless of citizenship, migration status, or length of residence. As the majority of research on foreigner objectification has emerged out of the United States, the chapter focuses on the foreigner objectification experiences of two rapidly growing US racial/ethnic groups: Latinos/as and Asian Americans. It first contextualizes foreigner objectification within the larger literature on attitudes toward racial/ethnic minority groups. It then discusses how foreigner objectification has been measured in psychological research and examines the limited but growing literature on the association between foreigner objectification and mental and physical health.

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Acts of Becoming

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10.7202/1084836ar ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 14 (24) ◽

pp. 1-25

Author(s):

Adam Tompkins

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Civil Rights ◽

Science Fiction ◽

Civil Rights Movement ◽

The United States ◽

Equal Rights ◽

Social Construct ◽

The Past ◽

Racial Issues ◽

The Future

This article examines the rich historical subtext in the future-focused storylines of Quantic Dream’s 2018 release Detroit: Become Human (PS4) and illuminates many of the thematic continuities in racial issues between the past and the future. Much of the subtle historical symbolism appears to have went unnoticed by many reviewers who maligned the videogame and its creator David Cage for relying on lazy tropes that clunkily connect the African American civil rights movement to the narrative of woke androids engaging in a struggle for greater equality in society. Following scholarship that has examined the development of racialized thought in the past, this essay recognizes “race” as a powerful, yet malleable social construct, that sometimes changes over time. Racial concepts in the game do not perfectly align with historical or contemporary understandings of “race” in the United States. Androids, in short, all belong to the same “race.” This article then contends that the storylines of all three playable characters in the game resonate with well-crafted historical parallels and that the narrative geography in the gameworld often closely tethers to the historical geography of Detroit. The characters Markus, Connor, and Kara have intertwining stories that represent different elements of minority life in the United States with the clearest parallels to the historical experience of African Americans. Detroit: Become Human, nonetheless, is a science fiction game about androids. Framing the struggle for equal rights in the future with a group of beings that do not yet exist has the potential to disarm gameplayers of latent biases that may otherwise color their view of contemporary racial issues. The article asserts that the wedding together of past and future through experiential gameplay nurtures an empathic understanding of minority concerns that may carry over to the present to impact understandings of contemporary racial issues.

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Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199546992.003.0021 ◽

2009 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Anuradha Basu

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Ethnic Minority ◽

Minority Groups ◽

The United States ◽

Empirical Literature ◽

Ethnic Minority Groups ◽

Ethnic Entrepreneurship ◽

Entrepreneurial Behaviour ◽

And Performance ◽

Definition Of

This article reviews the existing theoretical and empirical literature on ethnic entrepreneurship. It primarily focuses on empirical research conducted in Britain and the United States. It examines the definition of ethnic entrepreneurship and evaluates the forces affecting entry into ethnic entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial survival and success, as well as the factors underlying the heterogeneity in entrepreneurial behaviour and performance among ethnic minority groups.

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