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Alexandre White

John's Hopkins university
Verified email at jhu.edu
Cited by 894

Racism, xenophobia, discrimination, and the determination of health

D Devakumar, S Selvarajah, I Abubakar, SS Kim… - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
This Series shows how racism, xenophobia, discrimination, and the structures that support
them are detrimental to health. In this first Series paper, we describe the conceptual model …

The public's role in COVID-19 vaccination: Human-centered recommendations to enhance pandemic vaccine awareness, access, and acceptance in the United States

M Schoch-Spana, EK Brunson, R Long, A Ruth… - Vaccine, 2021 - Elsevier
Given the social and economic upheavals caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, political
leaders, health officials, and members of the public are eager for solutions. One of the most …

Reckoning with histories of medical racism and violence in the USA

A Nuriddin, G Mooney, AIR White - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
The killing of Eric Garner in 2014 at the hands of the New York Police Department and the
footage that circulated of his death after he was put in a chokehold elevated the phrase “I …

Historical linkages: epidemic threat, economic risk, and xenophobia

AIR White - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
As a historian and medical sociologist, I have been studying the histories of international
responses to epidemic events and what they can tell us about the nature of power …

Categorisation and minoritisation

S Selvarajah, T Abi Deivanayagam, G Lasco… - BMJ Global …, 2020 - gh.bmj.com
The disproportionate mortality of COVID-19 and brutality of protective institutions has shifted
anti-racism discourses into the mainstream. 1 Increased reckoning over categorisations of …

The sociology of global health: a literature review

J Harris, A White - Sociology of Development, 2019 - online.ucpress.edu
Over the past two decades, a sociology of global health has emerged. While this new
subfield takes up some themes and issues that are familiar to the discipline as a whole …

[HTML][HTML] Remembering past lessons about structural racism—recentering black theorists of health and society

A White, RLJ Thornton, JA Greene - New England Journal of …, 2021 - Mass Medical Soc
Remembering Past Lessons about Structural Racism Though the mounting resolve to
address structural racism in US medicine and public health is welcome, the theory and …

[BOOK][B] Epidemic orientalism: Race, capital, and the governance of infectious disease

AIR White - 2023 - books.google.com
For many residents of Western nations, COVID-19 was the first time they experienced the
effects of an uncontrolled epidemic. This is in part due to a series of little-known regulations …

COVID-19 communication campaigns for vaccination: an assessment with perspectives for future equity-centered public health efforts

A Quinn, A White, J Abbatangelo-Gray… - Journal of health …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Although public and private institutions have spent billions of dollars on COVID-19
vaccination campaigns, many of which claim to be “equity-focused,” few articles to date have …

Toward a sociology of colonial subjectivity: Political agency in Haiti and Liberia

R Hammer, AIR White - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The authors seek to connect global historical sociology with racial formation theory to
examine how antislavery movements fostered novel forms of self-government and …