Effective Elimination of Structural Racism
Effective Elimination of Structural Racism

Author: Erick Guerrero

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2022-05-25

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1839692820

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The increasing recognition of the role of structural racism affecting vulnerable groups motivated the scholarly work presented in this volume. The authors’ rigorous scholarship seeks to help readers identify and understand how structural racism impacts vulnerable groups and how effective practices may dismantle these structural forces. Nine chapters provide unique, comprehensive, and science-based approaches to identify and eliminate structural racism within healthcare, politics, and education systems. Policymakers, system administrators, scholars, students, and the public will benefit from the authors’ critical examples of structural racism within public systems across different countries, as well as from their proposed solutions.

How to Be a (Young) Antiracist
How to Be a (Young) Antiracist

Author: Ibram X. Kendi

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2023-09-12

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0593461614

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The #1 New York Times bestseller that sparked international dialogue is now a book for young adults! Based on the adult bestseller by Ibram X. Kendi, and co-authored by bestselling author Nic Stone, How to be a (Young) Antiracist will serve as a guide for teens seeking a way forward in acknowledging, identifying, and dismantling racism and injustice. The New York Times bestseller How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi is shaping the way a generation thinks about race and racism. How to be a (Young) Antiracist is a dynamic reframing of the concepts shared in the adult book, with young adulthood front and center. Aimed at readers 12 and up, and co-authored by award-winning children's book author Nic Stone, How to be a (Young) Antiracist empowers teen readers to help create a more just society. Antiracism is a journey--and now young adults will have a map to carve their own path. Kendi and Stone have revised this work to provide anecdotes and data that speaks directly to the experiences and concerns of younger readers, encouraging them to think critically and build a more equitable world in doing so.

Unequal Treatment
Unequal Treatment

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2009-02-06

Total Pages: 781

ISBN-13: 030908265X

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Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are known to reflect access to care and other issues that arise from differing socioeconomic conditions. There is, however, increasing evidence that even after such differences are accounted for, race and ethnicity remain significant predictors of the quality of health care received. In Unequal Treatment, a panel of experts documents this evidence and explores how persons of color experience the health care environment. The book examines how disparities in treatment may arise in health care systems and looks at aspects of the clinical encounter that may contribute to such disparities. Patients' and providers' attitudes, expectations, and behavior are analyzed. How to intervene? Unequal Treatment offers recommendations for improvements in medical care financing, allocation of care, availability of language translation, community-based care, and other arenas. The committee highlights the potential of cross-cultural education to improve provider-patient communication and offers a detailed look at how to integrate cross-cultural learning within the health professions. The book concludes with recommendations for data collection and research initiatives. Unequal Treatment will be vitally important to health care policymakers, administrators, providers, educators, and students as well as advocates for people of color.

Communities in Action
Communities in Action

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2017-04-27

Total Pages: 583

ISBN-13: 0309452961

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In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.

Addressing Racism
Addressing Racism

Author: Madonna G. Constantine

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2006-06-27

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0471799645

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Learn to identify and combat unintentional and overt racism This provocative book identifies and addresses racism in mental health and educational settings, providing proven strategies for overcoming this stubborn barrier to culturally competent practice. While addressing overt forms of racism, the book also explores and sensitizes practitioners to covert and unintentional forms of racism that may be equally detrimental in denying persons of color access to unbiased, high-quality education and mental health care. Despite the dismantling of overt racist policies, such as segregated schooling, and the implementation of policies aimed at remedying racial inequities, such as affirmative action, racism continues to persist in American society. Drs. Madonna Constantine and Derald Wing Sue, two of the leading researchers and advocates for multicultural competence, have collected sixteen thought-provoking and challenging chapters on the many ways that racism can affect a practitioner's interactions in mental health and school settings. These contributions collectively bring to the forefront highly charged issues that need to be discussed, but are too often hidden away. The book is divided into four parts: What Do We Know about Racism? Racism in Mental Health Contexts Racism in Educational Settings Eradicating Racism: Future Directions Faced with the responsibility of understanding multiple oppressions and the intersections of racism with sexism, classism, and heterosexism, mental health practitioners and educators must be vigilant of their personal role in perpetuating racism. This collected work will help you identify forms of racism, both within yourself and the systems you work in, and then implement strategies to eliminate them.

Asian American Communities and Health
Asian American Communities and Health

Author: Chau Trinh-Shevrin

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-04-03

Total Pages: 1111

ISBN-13: 0470505656

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This ground-breaking textbook examines Asian American health from a public health perspective. It provides an overview of the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that influence the distribution of disease and illness in Asian American communities. The book explores the diversity within the Asian community with respect to health seeking behavior and knowledge, socioeconomic status, educational level, cultural traditions, and specific health care needs and issues. By examining the contextual factors that impact health, the book seeks to facilitate a meaningful dialogue and identify creative solutions for health disparities faced by racial and ethnic minority communities.

Systematic Inequality
Systematic Inequality

Author: Jason Billings

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-06-28

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13:

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Racism manifests itself in a variety of ways and can occur in a variety of settings. It includes prejudice, discrimination, or hatred directed at someone because of their skin color, ethnicity, or national origin. Racism is often associated with acts of abuse or harassment. It does not, however, have to be violent or intimidating. Consider racial epithets and jokes. Consider situations in which people are excluded from groups or activities because of their origins. Racism can be seen in people's actions as well as their attitudes. It can also be seen in systems and institutions. However, it is not always revealed. Not all racism is obvious. For example, someone may go through a list of job applicants and decide not to interview people with certain surnames. Racism is more than just words, beliefs, and actions. It encompasses all of the barriers that prevent people from enjoying dignity and equality because of their race. For decades, serious scholarship has focused on racism in America. Harvard University Press have had the privilege of publishing some of the most influential books on the subject. The excerpts in this volume, drawn from works of history, law, sociology, medicine, economics, critical theory, philosophy, art, and literature, are an invitation to understand anti-Black racism through the eyes of our most astute commentators. Systematic Inequality is for all curious readers, teachers, and students who wish to discover How Structural Racism Helped Create the Black-White Wealth Gap in America. This is an easy to read, captivating, informative and educating book. To get started, scroll up and click on the BUY NOW and order a copy instantly!

The Right to Vote
The Right to Vote

Author: Alexander Keyssar

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 0465010148

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Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the disputed presidential contest of 2000 through the 2008 campaign and the election of Barack Obama. The Right to Vote is a sweeping reinterpretation of American political history as well as a meditation on the meaning of democracy in contemporary American life.

The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

Author: Patrick Thornberry

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 566

ISBN-13: 019926533X

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This Oxford Commentary is the first comprehensive article-by-article analysis of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. It discusses the conceptual and instrumental framework of the Convention and the CERD Committee, and addresses some of the critical challenges confronting the Convention.