#middle easterners
Tracing the history of Middle Eastern racial classification in America A few weeks ago, I was working on a grant that would help to decrease tobacco-related health disparities among minority populations. The table I was using looked a little something like this: And this was the graph: Source: CDPH In fact, throughout most of my undergraduate and post-graduate career, I became very familiar with the “Hispanic, non-hispanic White, African American/Black, Asian/Pacific Islander” dynamic. It was clear that my professors thought this…