Would you say never, once a year, once a month, once a week, once a day, once an hour, or constantly? This question has already been included on the Reactions to Race module that was piloted on the 2002 BRFSS. It has also been included on two large postal surveys, the 1995 Nurses Health Study II (NHS II with 93,681 respondents, Walter Willett, Principal Investigator) and the 1997 Black Womens Health Study (BWHS with 53,269 respondents, Lynn Rosenberg and Lucile Adams-Campbell, Principal Investigators).
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...the distribution of frequency of thinking about ones race is almost identical between the black women responding to the 1997 BWHS and the black women responding to the 1995 NHS II, even though these are entirely different groups of women who were queried two years apart. Further note that the distribution of race-consciousness for the white women responding to the NHS II differed markedly from the distribution for the black women in NHS II, even though both groups were nurses and they were surveyed at the same time. More than 50% of the white women in NHS II reported that they never think about their race, and only 0.3% reported thinking about their race constantly. On the other hand, 21% of the black women in NHS II and 22% of the black women responding to BWHS reported thinking about their race constantly, and roughly 50% of the black women in both groups reported thinking about their race once a day or more frequently. The distribution of frequency of thinking about ones race for Asian and Hispanic respondents to NHS II was intermediate between the black and white distributions.
“How often do you think about your race?” Well every 2nd weekend in August we have our St. Rocco Feast and break out the Italian flags. Does that count?
Clinton legacy:
Saturday, February 21, 1998
WHITE HOUSE FACT SHEET
Includes Over $400 Million to Develop New Approaches and to Build on Existing Successes to Address Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.
The fiscal year 2003 budget request for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) contains nearly $3 billion in funds to research health disparity issues, an increase of $600 million in just two fiscal years. This includes $187 million for NIHs National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities, the federal focal point for biomedical minority research activities.