The color of health: Skin color, ethnoracial classification, and discrimination in the health of Latin Americans.

Latin America is one of the most ethnoracially heterogeneous regions of the world. Despite this, health disparities research in Latin America tends to focus on gender, class and regional health differences while downplaying ethnoracial differences. Few scholars have conducted studies of ethnoracial...

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Published in:	Social Science & Medicine Vol. 116; pp. 241 - 251
Main Authors:	Perreira, Krista M., Telles, Edward E.
Format:	Article
Published:	Elsevier B.V. Sep2014
Subjects:	Latin America Discrimination (Sociology) Health status indicators Hispanic Americans Interviewing Self-evaluation Socioeconomic factors
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