Abstract
This article has been written from the UK, using British terminology to refer to ethnic minorities where BAME (Black, Asian, minority ethnic groups) is a commonly used and recognized acronym. In the United Kingdom, Asian also generally refers to minorities from South Asian countries including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. In the United States, Asian more frequently refers to people from Southeast Asian countries like China, Japan, and South Korea. Socially constructed categories used to refer to minoritized groups are variously constructed in different countries; for example, British nomenclature most often refers to ethnicity rather than race.
Highlights
Citation for published item: Bentley, Gillian (2020) 'Don't blame the BAME : ethnic and structural inequalities in susceptibilities to COVID-19.', American journal of human biology., 32 (5)
These disparities were first reported in news outlets (Blow, 2020; Cowan, 2020; Godin, 2020; The Guardian, 2020a) and, more recently, verified in academic journals (e.g., Bhala, Curry, Martineau, Agyeman, & Bhopal, 2020; Khunti, Singh, Pareek, & Hanif, 2020; Laurencin & McClinton, 2020; Webb Hooper, Nápoles, & Pérez-Stable, 2020), as well as through organizations responsible for gathering health statistics
The Office for National Statistics (ONS)—the central organization responsible for producing demographic statistics in the UK—recently stated that Blacks were over four times more likely than whites in England and Wales to die from COVID-19, figures that were equivalent across both genders
Summary
Citation for published item: Bentley, Gillian (2020) 'Don't blame the BAME : ethnic and structural inequalities in susceptibilities to COVID-19.', American journal of human biology., 32 (5).
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