Part II: The Way Forward. Prioritize equity equity equity ; Guidelines for new approaches to disrupt weathering and promote health equity -- Think Biopsychosocially: Address the Stealth Inequities That Surround Us. Diffusing threatening cues in the birth setting ; Changing situational cues in school settings ; Encouraging stigmatized people to develop counternarratives about their predicaments ; Sending new social-identity cues through storytelling media ; Decoding and dismantling the negative cues delivered by social and digital media ; Big data and social stereotyping ; Being attentive to the expressive role of law and current events -- Think Holistically: Transcend Departments, Compartments, and Determinants -- Do Not Erase Oppressed Stakeholders: Do Nothing about Us without Us. Taking pregnant and birthing women's voices seriously ; Operationalizing equity through mandatory protocols in life-threatening situations ; The fourth trimester of pregnancy ; No erasure: Voting rights -- Reorient Public-Health Science and Practice to Better Address the Needs of Working- and Reproductive-Age Adults. Reproductive justice: The doulas and don'ts ; The exaggerated virtues and downplayed costs of postponing childbearing -- Recognize All Our Fates Are Linked. Health-care spending ; Climate change ; Suburbanization and reurbanization: The links between climate change and weathering, historically and now ; An equitable green economy ; Improving public transport ; Vital Brooklyn: Centering equity through holistic and community-based urban planning ; Going forward.
Part I: The Erasure, the Erosion, and the Withstanding -- Is Working Hard and Playing By the Rules the Cure for What Ails Us? Weathering ; Age-washing ; The reality of weathering compared to the distortion of age-washing ; Sick and tired of being sick and tired -- Stress and the Human Biological Canvas. Age-washed advice: Stress less, smile more ; Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy ; Chronic physiological stress responses and weathering ; Stress: Acute or chronic? Or both? ; Structural violence ; The inner workings of the stress response system ; The human toll -- Distressed Genes and Weathered Cells. Race and DNA, a biological fiction ; Genetics and epigenetics ; Genotypes and phenotypes ; Weathered cells and shortened telomeres -- Mothers and Babies in Jeopardy. The influence of weathering on maternal and infant health outcomes ; Teen motherhood versus the cost of postponing childbearing ; Maternal age and poor infant outcomes ; The cost of delayed childbearing in the Black community ; Pregnant facts ; Risks for Black women : Rich and poor, famous and not ; Giving birth while being Black: "Devastating, isolating, and all too often lethal" -- Collectively Weathering Weathering. Early death and prolonged disability in marginalized families ; Commonsense formulas for configuring and protecting poor and marginalized families ; Kin networks ; Collectivism ; Childbearing at an early age ; Women-centered networks ; Wanda and Donnie -- Killing Us Stealthily: The Weather Effects of Racialized Social Identity. Birth outcomes based on social identity ; Social identity: A group project ; Othering ; The health consequences of othering ; Weathering in Detroit ; Paradox lost -- Weathering for Success: Age Against the Machine. My armor: Othering in the second generation ; Early death among Black alumni of the Ivy League ; The weathering effects of integration and upward mobility ; Stereotype threat ; The cost of ambition and grit ; Overcoming the machine: The John Henryism Scale of Active Coping -- Social Policy and the Assault on Black Family Life. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 ; PRWORA and racist stereotyping: The vilification of the teen mother ; PRWORA and material hardship ; PRWORA and the disruption of networks ; No child left behind? Promoting school choice and closing failing schools ; Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere (HOPE VI) ; The biological evidence ; Challenging the Black family pathology narrative --
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