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099    Streaming Video Kanopy 
245 00 Unnatural causes.|pWhen the bough breaks.|h[Kanopy 
       electronic resource] 
246 30 When the bough breaks 
264  1 [San Francisco, California, USA] :|bKanopy Streaming,
       |c2014. 
300    1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 30 min., 30
       sec.) :|bdigital, .flv file, sound 
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500    Title from title frames. 
518    Originally produced by California Newsreel in 2008. 
520    The number of infants who die before their first birthday 
       is much higher in the U.S. than in other countries. And 
       for African Americans the rate is nearly twice as high as 
       for white Americans. Even well-educated black women have 
       birth outcomes worse than white women who haven't finished
       high school. Why? We meet Kim Anderson, a successful 
       Atlanta lawyer, executive and mother. When Kim was 
       pregnant with her first child in 1990, she, like so many 
       others, did her best to ensure a healthy baby: she ate 
       right, exercised, abstained from alcohol and smoking and 
       received good prenatal care. Yet two and a half months 
       before her due date, she went into labor unexpectedly. Her
       newborn weighed less than three pounds. Kim and her 
       husband were devastated. How could this have happened? We 
       know that in general health follows wealth: on average, 
       the higher on the socioeconomic ladder you are, the lower 
       your risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, infant death
       and preterm deliveries. For highly educated African 
       American women like Kim, the advantages of income and 
       status do make a difference for her health, but there's 
       still something else at play: racism. Neonatologists James
       Collins and Richard David believe that African American 
       women are at increased risk during pregnancy, not because 
       of something innate to their biology, but because of the 
       cumulative impact of racism they experience over their 
       lifetime - an impact that can outweigh even the benefits 
       of higher social and class status. To demonstrate their 
       theory, Drs. Collins and David showed that African 
       immigrants to the U.S. and U.S.-born white women had 
       similar birth outcomes, yet African American women tended 
       to have babies that weighed significantly less. Moreover, 
       they showed that the results changed over time: outcomes 
       for the African-born group worsened within one generation 
       and became comparable to the African American group. So 
       how does racism get "under the skin" and affect pregnancy?
       Researchers like Michael Lu believe that chronic stress is
       the culprit: unequal treatment causes anxiety and the 
       release of stress hormones, which over a lifetime of 
       constant activation not only creates wear and tear on the 
       body's organs and systems, but can trigger premature 
       labor. As Dr. Camara Jones of the CDC points out, for most
       people of colour, racism isn't an occasional problem but a
       subtle, everyday stressor that is added onto all the other
       stressors in a person's life. Anthropologist Fleda Jackson,
       sociologist Mona Phillips and epidemiologist Carol Hogue 
       are working to help us measure and better understand 
       racism's impact. Through focus groups and programs that 
       provide family support, they and others are helping 
       African American women find the resources they need to 
       cope. Yet for all of us, the challenge remains to tackle 
       the harmful conditions that surround and negatively impact
       African American women and babies in the first place - so 
       that everyone can have a good start for a healthy life. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 Infants|xDeath. 
650  0 African Americans. 
650  0 Documentary films. 
655  7 Documentary films.|2lcgft 
655  7 Documentary films, television films.|2lcgft 
700 1  Anderson, Kim,|econtributor. 
700 1  Collins, James,|econtributor. 
700 1  David, Richard,|econtributor. 
700 1  Lu, Michael,|econtributor. 
700 1  Jones, Camara,|econtributor. 
700 1  Jackson, Fleda,|econtributor. 
700 1  Phillips, Mona,|econtributor. 
700 1  Hogue, Carol,|econtributor. 
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