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A social ecological framework of inmate health: implications for black -- White health disparities / Kathryn M. Nowotny -- The relationship between health, cigarette smoking and criminal justice contact among African Americans / Panmela Valera, Robert Joseph Taylor and Linda M Chatters -- The sexual health of African American and white men: does former incarceration status matter? / Loren Henderson -- "Maybe it was something wrong with me": on the psychiatric pathologization of black men / Joanna Tegnerowicz -- Suicide among young African American males / Alex E. Crosby and Shane P. D. Jack -- Life under the veil: homicide in black America before, during, and after the drop in US crime / Christine Martin -- Gendered racism is a key to explaining and addressing police-involved shootings of unarmed black men in America / Jennifer A. Hartfield, Derek M. Griffith and Marino A. Bruce -- The matter of lives underneath black male skin: using theory and media to explore the case of "Justifiable homicides" for black males / Keon L. Gilbert, Rashawn Ray, W. Carson Byrd, Joseph B. Richards and Odis Johnson, Jr. -- Solidarity, double consciousness, and collective emotion work: understanding negative black health outcomes resulting from systemic police terror / Louwanda Evans and Charity Clay -- Framing physicality and public safety: a study of Michael Brown and Darren Wilson / Michael Oshiro and Pamela Valera.

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