En un reciente artículo publicado en The Newyorker la profesora Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor se pregunta por qué la población afro americana de los Estados Unidos aporta un mayor número de víctimas en las estadísticas oficiales (siendo una minoría racial) en la mayor parte de las ciudades afectadas, como Chicago, St. Louis o Nueva York centro de la pandemia de Covid-19; el mismo fenómeno se presenta con los migrantes latinoamericanos.
Héctor Hernán Díaz Guevara
Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
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