Holton J K
Harvard University School of Public Health, USA.
J Health Care Poor Underserved. 1995;6(2):152-9. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2010.0592.
In his novel of Black life circa the 1950s, Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison laid bare the wasteful, destructive societal consequences of racism. At the close of the 20th century, we are faced with the phenomenon of another social problem, likewise unresolved and likely to haunt us similarly: urban violence. Following Ellison's example, this paper seeks to explore the impact of violence's stark invisibility by discussing a research strategy that better explains the terrifying phenomenon of violence. In order to comprehend the totality of violence, macro- and micro-level variables have to be introduced into the research design and measured over time. Therefore, research might best address violence if it was designed to include variables of poverty and racism, and was more inclusive of research from a broader range of scientific disciplines.
在拉尔夫·埃里森创作于20世纪50年代前后、关于黑人生活的小说《隐形人》中，他揭示了种族主义造成的浪费且具有破坏性的社会后果。在20世纪末，我们面临着另一个社会问题的现象，同样尚未解决且可能会以类似方式困扰着我们：城市暴力。以埃里森为榜样，本文试图通过讨论一种能更好地解释暴力这一可怕现象的研究策略，来探讨暴力明显的隐形性所带来的影响。为了全面理解暴力，必须将宏观和微观层面的变量引入研究设计并随时间进行测量。因此，如果研究设计能纳入贫困和种族主义变量，并更广泛地涵盖来自更多科学学科的研究，那么这样的研究可能最有助于解决暴力问题。
