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Despite decades of social work and other social science research on race and ethnic differences on the social and psychological well-being of humans, the overall disparities and disproportionalities in health and safety persist. A preponderance of evidence in research has documented worse outcomes in education, income, health, behavioral health, delinquency, substance abuse, disabilities, criminal justice, safety, and chronic diseases for racial and ethnic minorities when compared with white people (Auslander, Thompson, Dreitzer, White, & Santiago, 1997; Cummings, Ponce, & Mays, 2010; Hardaway & McLoyd, 2009; Hirschl & Rank, 2010; Kington & Smith, 1997; Mustard, 2001; Nguyen, Ho, & Williams, 2011; Olshansky et al., 2012; Rank, 2009; Saez & Piketty, 2003; Sampson & Lauritsen, 1997; J. H. Williams, Pierce, Young, & Van Dorn, 2001; J. H. Williams et al., 2007). The majority of these studies have investigated differences among African Americans, Native Americans/Alaska Natives, Hispanic and Latino Americans, and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islanders as compared with white Americans. Studies of differences and disparities in our discipline are not common just to race and ethnicity, they are also quite prominent in investigating differences across gender, age, and sexual orientation (Dembo, Williams, & Schmeidler, 1993; Mays & Cochran, 2001; Rank & Williams, 2010).

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