Du Bois Review: Racial Inequality and Health, free Articles

Selected articles now available for all to read - for free Dear Colleague, Du Bois Review: Social Science on Race has just published a very special issue: a state-of-the-art overview of contemporary racial health disparities research, featuring the work of more than sixty scholars in relevant fields. To stay up-to-date with the latest from Du Bois Review, sign up for electronic tables-of-contents alerts. And read these articles from Volume 8, Number 1 now: Race/Ethnicity and U.S. Adult Mortality: Progress, Prospects, and New Analyses, by Robert A. Hummer and Juanita J. Chinn "It's a Lot of Work": Racialization Processes, Ethnic Identity Formations, and Their Health Implications, by Edna A. Viruell-Fuentes Incarceration and the Health of the African American Community, by Jason Schnittker, Michael Massoglia, and Christopher Uggen Toothless: The Methamphetamine "Epidemic", "Meth Mouth", and the Racial Construction of Drug Scares, by Naomi Murakawa The Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race is an innovative periodical that presents and analyzes the best cutting-edge research on race from the social sciences. It provides a forum for discussion and increased understanding of race and society from a range of disciplines. Each issue includes three substantive sections, where essays, think-pieces, empirical research, book reviews, special feature essays, and occasionally debates appear. Many issues also include a conversation between Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and an eminent scholar on broad areas of research regarding race. The most recent interview is with Condoleezza Rice, available here. For more information about the journal, including subscription information and instructions for contributors, go to the journal's homepage. You can also suggest that your institution's librarian subscribe via a short online library recommendation form. Also of interest Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics