School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Gerontologist. 2022 May 26;62(5):704-710. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnab156.
With the substantial demographic changes in racial composition in the United States since 1965, research on racial health inequities must build upon the Black-White binary to assess the complex ways "race" affects health and aging. Considering variation in the prevalence and meanings of aging across racialized groups requires concerted efforts to expand and disaggregate samples. Aligned with the goals of the intersectionality framework, we argue that greater inclusion of Asian Americans is critical to advance both theoretical and methodological considerations that enable us to investigate the lived experiences of Asian Americans. Using caregiving as an example, we discuss how systemic, cultural, and interpersonal marginalization from racism and other oppressive systems intertwine with "race" to produce the race effects. Greater inclusion of Asian Americans helps further provide the opportunity to conceptualize culture as dynamic and interacting with structure to produce different racial patterns. Meaningful inclusion of Asian Americans in research requires more systemic effort to collect accurate, reliable, and quality data for Asian Americans that can be disaggregated by other important axes of stratification.
自 1965 年以来，美国的种族构成发生了重大的人口变化，因此，研究种族健康不平等问题必须建立在黑人和白人的二元基础上，以评估“种族”影响健康和衰老的复杂方式。考虑到不同种族群体中衰老的普遍性和意义的变化，需要共同努力来扩大和分解样本。我们认为，与交叉性框架的目标一致，更广泛地纳入亚裔美国人对于推进理论和方法考虑至关重要，这使我们能够调查亚裔美国人的生活经历。我们以照顾者为例，讨论了种族主义和其他压迫性系统造成的系统性、文化性和人际边缘化如何与“种族”交织在一起，产生种族效应。更广泛地纳入亚裔美国人有助于进一步提供机会，将文化概念化为动态的，并与结构相互作用，产生不同的种族模式。要使亚裔美国人有意义地参与研究，就需要做出更多的系统努力，为亚裔美国人收集准确、可靠和高质量的数据，并可按其他重要的分层轴进行分解。
