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cord-295693-45etqt72	McClure, Elizabeth S	Racial Capitalism within Public Health: How Occupational Settings Drive COVID-19 Disparities	2020-07-03		.txt	text/plain	3450	210	43	In her scholarship on the history of race and medicine, Dr. Dorothy Roberts describes how focusing on "underlying" health conditions and behavioral risk factors allows society "[a] to ignore how disease is caused by political inequality and [b] to justify an unequal system by pointing to the inherent racial difference that disease supposedly reveals" (20) . Under racial capitalism, attention is drawn away from workplace hazards by arguing that workers are inherently at high risk of ill health due to their own racial and behavioral susceptibilities, masking and justifying how labor is structured to concentrate risky, lowwage work among non-White or otherwise marginalized workforces. In the counterfactual scenario of no Black lung function correction but a White hearing correction, industry would owe 31% more in worker's compensation payouts (this calculation is based on applying the average payout associated with each workers' compensation award in a typical state (30)). Under racial capitalism, Black workers experience more work-related health damage because they are concentrated in riskier, less protected jobs.	./cache/cord-295693-45etqt72.txt	./txt/cord-295693-45etqt72.txt