In their January 2019 (Vol 109, No. 1) issue, the American Journal of Public Health published this editorial about how the slave trade set racist structures in North America which were not challenged by the American Revolution and which are impacting public health today.
The editorial was written by Thomas A. LaVeist of Tulane University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA; Mindy Fullilove of Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, NY; and Robert Fullilove of Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. Find this article and more at the American Journal of Public Health website. |