C.I. Harris's scientific contributions

Citations

... We call this metric the "whiteness" of the county, following critical race theorists who distinguish between "White people" as a descriptor and "whiteness" as a sociocultural construct and lived experience of systemic racial privilege and advantage. [10][11][12] In the US, White raciality provides structural and systemic advantages that affect health outcomes, even as socio-cultural definitions of whiteness have shifted over time. 13 As a consequence of racial privilege and structural racism, non-Hispanic whiteness is often regarded as normative in relation to all other racial identities, in particular Black or African American populations. ...