Race and Ethnicity in the Pandemic

Journal Space and Culture, India 2022

14 Pages Posted: 3 Jan 2023

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Venkat Pulla

Brisbane Institute of Strengths

Rituparna Bhattacharyya

Alliance for Community Capacity Building in North East India

Rachel Lafain

University of South Australia

Date Written: November 28, 2022

Abstract

This study begins with the historical understanding of race and its modern perspectives as a social construct amid social identity and critical race theories. Next, race and ethnicity are explored within the context of COVID-19, whereby those of non-white backgrounds are seeing different disastrous health outcomes and experiencing heightened levels of racism in the pandemic. Examples and analyses from around the world are then provided, which have resulted in health disparities and increased racism against non-white people, such as the high-rise apartment building disasters, rural Indigenous communities, and the Black Lives Matter movement. Adding fuel to the fire, there have been rumours internationally of certain ethnic groups carrying and spreading COVID-19.

Keywords: COVID-19, Racism, Ethnic Minorities, Discrimination, Health Disparities, Indigenous Communities

JEL Classification: Y70, Z13, Z30

Suggested Citation

Pulla, Venkat and Bhattacharyya, Rituparna and Lafain, Rachel, Race and Ethnicity in the Pandemic (November 28, 2022). Journal Space and Culture, India 2022, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4311328

Venkat Pulla

Brisbane Institute of Strengths ( email )

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Rituparna Bhattacharyya (Contact Author)

Alliance for Community Capacity Building in North East India ( email )

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United Kingdom

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Rachel Lafain

University of South Australia

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