Health and Wellness : Op-Ed African Americans get less sleep than whites, an inequality stretching back to slavery

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A family of African American war workers in a makeshift bedroom in Little Toyko, Los Angeles in the 1940s. (Los Angeles Daily News/UCLA Archive)


When we study racial inequality, we tend to consider factors that affect people while they are awake. Differential access to safe neighborhoods with good schools, decent jobs and unbalanced treatment by police and the courts surely have much to do with the stubborn disparities in wealth and well-being among blacks and whites, in particular. Yet it may be just as important to consider what happens when we’re asleep. Race shapes our sleep, a relationship that has surprising roots deep in our national past.

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http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-reiss-race-sleep-gap-20170423-story.html
 

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