Going Beyond ‘Race Corrections’ to Address Conceptual Clarifications

Many people want more clarification about how racialized inequality becomes embedded in healthcare systems through medical interventions and even in structures of scientific discoveries further upstream. In this lecture, we will follow the ways that racial thinking can inflect practices of data gathering and knowledge production. At stake is how observed differences in health, symptom measurement, risk score, or other articulations of variance in human biology, are often rooted in social and political realities where people’s bodies are treated through lenses of difference.