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Racism and Public Health in the American Tropics
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The idea that white people were more susceptible to tropical illnesses led to racial segregation and discrimination in the American Tropics during the early 1900s, with only white workers receiving extended vacations and furnished apartments while black and indigenous workers lived in poor conditions and did manual labor.

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