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Singer describes a vicious cycle wherein Black people are more likely to be harmed or killed in accidents due to systemic causes (manufactured vulnerabilities) but are then more likely to be blamed for it, as individuals and as a race.

According to scholars Barbara Fields and Karen Fields, this is a form of "racecraft": when racism itself makes race seem more real.

Fields & Fields wrote a book about Racecraft, which is now on my reading list: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/233136/racecraft-by-barbara-j-fields-and-karen-e-fields/