Introduction: Educational attainment and poverty status are two strong socioeconomic status (SES) indicators that protect individuals against exposure to second-hand smoke. Minorities’ Diminished Returns (MDRs), however, refer to smaller protective effects of SES indicators among ethnic minority groups such as Hispanics and Blacks, compared to non-Hispanic Whites. This...

BACKGROUND In 2020 the largest number of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) will be found in Asia. Published epidemiological and clinical reports are overwhelmingly derived from western (White) cohorts and data from Asia are scant. We compared CAD severity and all-cause mortality among 4 of the world's most populous ethnicities: Whites, Chinese, Indians and Malays. METHODS The UNIted...

The ‘comparative analytic of ethnic forms’ developed in Andreas Wimmer’s Ethnic Boundary Making makes a major contribution towards specifying why ethnicity matters to different degrees and in different ways in differing social and historical contexts. My comment raises two issues for discussion. I question whether nationhood can be fully subsumed under the overarching rubric of ethnicity. And I...

This study examined the relationship between student ethnicity and success in a distance learning course. Grounded in social identity theory, this study examined differences in online achievement by ethnicity for 959 education majors at a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). Simple main effect tests were conducted after assumption tests for the ANCOVA were not met. Findings indicated that for st...

OBJECTIVE The development of obesity-related metabolic disorders varies with ethnicity. We examined whether ethnicity modifies the relationship between BMI and three metabolic pathways (insulin resistance, inflammation, and adiponectin) that are involved in the pathogenesis of diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We analyzed data from 4,804 Chinese, Malay, an...

Race is a product of social conflicts between different groups of people, and hence it is guided by the interests and politics of privileging some groups over the others. Omi and Winant (2002) define race as “a concept which signifies and symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to different types of human bodies” (p. 123). Race, when defined loosely, is taken interchangeably with...

Studies of the ramifications client race and ethnicity for bureaucrats' judgments treat minority status as homogenous. Yet, individual identity does not boil down to or ethnicity. Members racial ethnic groups likely vary in their experiences capacity overcome negative sentiments stereotypes that burden inherited group. To transcend unidimensional explanations, we combine Van Oorschot's deservin...

BACKGROUND The recognition of health disparities as an important aspect of US health care has led to renewed interest in the reporting of race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) in original research reports. PURPOSE To describe reporting of race/ethnicity and SES, in comparison with age and gender, and to report changes with time. METHODS All original research articles that focused on...

Ethnicity represents a challenging category of selfhood, even for societies sharing a material lived reality. In cyberspace, ethnicity becomes even more confusing. If ethnic affiliation truly depends upon material phenomena such as body or place, what scope, if any, is there for construction of “real ethnicity” in the deterritorialized disembodied virtual spaces of the Internet? In this paper, ...