University of Wisconsin–Madison

Race, racism and globalization

  • Climate mismatch and its hidden toll on immigrant health

    This study finds that immigrants who move to U.S. counties with climates very different from their country of birth tend to live shorter lives. Using linked census and Social Security death records, this study found that a larger temperature gap between an immigrant’s birthplace and their new home is linked to lower life expectancy, especially…

  • The cost of racial violence

    This study reveals the lasting toll of racial violence on Black Americans’ longevity. Researchers find that Black babies whose mothers were pregnant during a local lynching lived about 3.7 months less as adults, on average.

  • Trade shocks and rising deaths

    This study examines the long-term health impacts of NAFTA-driven economic shocks on American communities.

  • What racial identity meant for a longer life

    This study investigates how changing one’s racial classification, specifically, passing as white, affected old-age longevity for African Americans in the pre-Civil Rights era.

  • When film fuels harm

    Exposure in early life to the social and racial hostility sparked by the 1915 film Birth of a Nation led to significant long-term health impacts on Black Americans.