Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Because of increased access of African Americans to the health care system, black and white infant mortality rates are approximately the same.
2. African Americans are more than twice as likely to die from diabetes, kidney disease, and hypertension as whites.
3. Discrimination based upon African Americans' skin color is less important than their culture and demeanor.
4. After the Civil War up to the end of the century, beliefs about the biological inferiority of African Americans declined in favor of more sociocultural explanations of inferiority.
5. After the Civil War, the South maintained a belief in the biological inferiority of African Americans, while the North dropped such notions.
1. FALSE
2. TRUE
3. FALSE
4. FALSE
5. FALSE
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