The social Construction of Social Problems. Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in A Life- Or- Death Crisis (Coursework Sample)

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Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in A Life- Or- Death Crisis
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The death of black mothers and babies in America as compared to the whites has for centuries been a major social issue which has provoked steamed debates over this racial mortality divide. Linda Villarosa’s publication “Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in A Life- Or- death Crisis” manifests the quandary of these misfortunes as accents on a high black-white divide in the infant mortality rate between the black and white infants (Villarosa par 5). The author underlines racial divisions being the primary cause of this inequity as she shows how African mothers have been discriminated in the American health system for subtle reasons relating to their ethnic background.
Childbirth Racism as a Social problem
Linda Villarosa illuminates with evidence the fact that the American health system has with intent placed the black American infants at risk of death, and it has recurrently disregarded their well-being within its health system. With evince, the writer documents a ration of 340 out of 1,000 infant mortality rates existing among the blacks as compared to the 217 out of 1,000 infant mortality rates in the white Americans (Villarosa par 15).