'Such confident, sweeping, racist generalizations appeared often, impugning not just Africans and Indigenous Americans, but also Jewish people, Catholics, Irish immigrants, Germans, & Mexican Americans. Systems of racial thought evolved over time, changing who could be included in the White elite'

nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM

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@cyrilpedia what I'm most interested in going forward is whether the medical community is able to thread the needle between "no, you are X therefore you are at higher risk of Y" by doing racially bifurcated studies and "no X can be better intrinsically better than any other X at anything" thinking.

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