Elizabeth Wrigley-Field. "Three Ways of Looking at Black/White MortalityDisparities in the United States". Note: Presenter will be on Zoom. You may attend on Zoom or in person in #8108. Elizabeth tells us that she is seeking comments on the paper and/or presentation.

Abstract

Everyone agrees that U.S. Black deaths happen sooner thanwhite deaths on average, but it is surprisingly challenging to find the bestways to summarize, quantify, and compare this gap. This talk argues that thereare three main strategies for doing so, only one of which is what mostquantitative social scientists would readily recognize as a measurementstrategy. Distributional approaches quantify population death rates orlifespans, and there is a proliferation of new, creative methods for doing so.Action-based approaches benchmark Black excess deaths against other deathsthat, often, are a greater social priority to prevent; they carry normativeforce but also implicitly take eradicating disparities as the primary goal,which sometimes distorts judgments. Meaning-based approaches attempt to measurelosses—to decedents, their survivors, and the world—that follow from excessBlack deaths. These losses range from lost votes and cultural production totraumatic proximity to death to lost chances for reconciliation. I show howeach approach offers new empirical and theoretical opportunities to betterunderstand unequal lifespans; meaning-based approaches, in particular, canoffer new perspectives on longstanding disparities.

A copy of the paper has been circulated to the workshop email list. You may contact pamela.oliver@wisc.edu or ewf@umn.edu to obtain a copy of the paper if you are not on the workshop email list.  Elizabeth is looking for comments on the paper but will also make an oral presentation so she can receive comments from people who have not had time to read the paper. 

We are meeting in person in room 8108 Sewell Social Sciences every two weeks on Wednesday at 10:30 to 12. You are also welcome to attend by Zoom. Contact Catalina.Valdez@wisc.edu or Ifatunji@wisc.edu if you would like to make a presentation at this workshop or gain more information. 

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Workshop website: https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/race_ethnic/

We are meeting in person in room 8108 Sewell Social Sciences every two weeks on Wednesday at 10:30 to 12. You are also welcome to attend by Zoom. Contact Catalina.Valdez@wisc.edu or Ifatunji@wisc.edu if you would like to make a presentation at this workshop or gain more information. 

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Meeting ID: 939 3684 2532
Passcode: 505036

Workshop website: https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/race_ethnic/

We are meeting in person in room 8108 Sewell Social Sciences every two weeks on Wednesday at 10:30 to 12. You are also welcome to attend by Zoom. Contact Catalina.Valdez@wisc.edu or Ifatunji@wisc.edu if you would like to make a presentation at this workshop or gain more information. 

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 939 3684 2532
Passcode: 505036

Workshop website: https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/race_ethnic/

We are meeting in person in room 8108 Sewell Social Sciences every two weeks on Wednesday at 10:30 to 12. You are also welcome to attend by Zoom. Contact Catalina.Valdez@wisc.edu or Ifatunji@wisc.edu if you would like to make a presentation at this workshop or gain more information. 

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 939 3684 2532
Passcode: 505036

Workshop website: https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/race_ethnic/

We are meeting in person in room 8108 Sewell Social Sciences every two weeks on Wednesday at 10:30 to 12. You are also welcome to attend by Zoom. Contact Catalina.Valdez@wisc.edu or Ifatunji@wisc.edu if you would like to make a presentation at this workshop or gain more information. 

Join Zoom Meeting
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93936842532?pwd=ufchxNrBChc8khhZfc0wEIAXPhHl0n.1

Meeting ID: 939 3684 2532
Passcode: 505036

Workshop website: https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/race_ethnic/

We are meeting in person in room 8108 Sewell Social Sciences every two weeks on Wednesday at 10:30 to 12. You are also welcome to attend by Zoom. Contact Catalina.Valdez@wisc.edu or Ifatunji@wisc.edu if you would like to make a presentation at this workshop or gain more information. 

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 939 3684 2532
Passcode: 505036

Workshop website: https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/race_ethnic/