Matt Grace

#NewPublication reveals that Black Americans who perceive themselves as dark-skinned experience more stress. Learn more about the biopsychosocial model of colorism-related distress: bit.ly/42FrLnS

By Alexis C. Dennis @reeddeangelis.bsky.social Taylor W. Hargrove Jay A. Pearson

Heterogeneous and racialized impacts of state incarceration policies on birth outcomes in the United States Abstract. While state incarceration policies have received much attention in research on the causes of mass incarceration in the United States, their roles

🚨 New paper 🚨

In the latter half of the 20th c, states in the US passed massive suites of “tough-on-crime” sentencing policies.

In this paper, we investigated how (& why) these policies shaped pop health, esp racialized patterns of birth outcomes in the US.

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Media alert: My research on professional culture and physician burnout was just cited in this Medscape article about how medicine can be unhealthy for doctors: www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

@asanews.bsky.social @asamedsoc.bsky.social

Karen is the best medical sociologist out there. Looking forward to keeping up with this!

Racial Capitalism and Black-White Health Inequities in the United States: The Case of the 2008 Financial Crisis - Reed T. DeAngelis, 2025

My new article will be out in the next issue of Journal of Health and Social Behavior. I'll be sure to post it here when it's out. In the meantime, here's a short thread and open-access link to a policy brief (tinyurl.com/yc7zxj98) 🧵 (1/8)

The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991.

Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.

As of this morning, it’s gone.

When you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

Congratulations on both the article and this great piece—I’ll be assigning it for a unit on poverty and intergenerational inequality in Intro Soc this upcoming semester

Two Great Reads - Monday - December 2 Siblings!

It's Monday, so over at the blog I wrote about two great new papers that take a swing at what you can and can't do with sibling data.

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