African Americans die at a much higher rate than whites, a fact that leaves an unfortunate but largely overlooked effect on the community as a whole: According to new research, African Americans are also much more likely to suffer a death in the family, the effects of which could reverberate across generations.
“If blacks die at higher rates and earlier in the life course than whites, then blacks lose more loved ones from childhood through adulthood,” University of Texas–Austin professor of sociology Debra Umberson and her colleagues write in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “Through the damaging effects of grief and other mechanisms, such losses are likely to undermine multiple life course outcomes.”
[For more of this story, written by Nathan Collins, go to https://psmag.com/does-a-death...621c82769#.foo3zcwdi]
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