Racism : science & tools for the public health professional / edited by Chandra L. Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS, and Derek M. Griffith, PhD.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ford, Chandra L., editor.

Griffith, Derek M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in medical care.

Health services accessibility.

Race discrimination.

Health Services Accessibility.

racial discrimination.

Medical Subjects:

Health Services Accessibility.

Physical Description:

xxv, 498 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

2nd edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Public Health Association, [2024]

Summary:

"This book outlines the relationship between racism and health, while providing public health professionals with a variety of actions, strategies, and tools to understand and address the public health implications of racism, as well as inspiration to pursue health equity"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I. The Context Of Health Equity And Racism In The Early 21st Century

Reflections-This Ain't Yo Laboratory: Racism, Research, and an Attempt to Center Home / Natalie J. Bradford, PhD, MS

1. Power, Politics, and the Health Costs of Trump-Era "Divisive Concepts" / Andrew J. Twinamatsiko, JD, Caroline R. Efird, PhD, MPH, and Derek M. Griffith, PhD

2. Hate Crimes and Health Equity in the United States: 21st Century Considerations / Alexis J. Smith, MPH, and Chandra L. Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS

II. Racism, Settler Colonialism,and Imperialism: Diverse Experiences And Implications

3. "We Are Peoples": Reclaiming Native Health / Dian Million, PhD, and Dornell Pete, PhD, MPH

4. Multilevel Racism, Historical Trauma, Resilience, and Native Hawaiian Health / Cherry Y. E. W. Yamane, MPH, and Nicole Kau'i Baumhofer-Merritt, ScD, MPH, MA

5. The Global and Historical Nature of Racism and Health Among Asian Americans / Gilbert C. Gee, PhD, Cindy Sangalang, PhD, MSW, Brittany N. Morey, PhD, MPH, and Anna K. Hing, PhD, MPH

6. Racism and the Health of Black Americans: How Racism Has Shaped the Health of Black People and What to Do About It / Anthony J. Nixon Jr., MPH, and Darrell Hudson, PhD, MPH

7. Whiteness: A Fundamental Determinant of Health / Caroline R. Efird, PhD, MPH, and Derek M. Griffith, PhD

8. Racism and the Health of Latiné Communities / Alana M. W. LeBrón, PhD, MS, Juan Carlos Ruiz Malagon, MS, MA, and Edna A. Viruell-Fuentes, PhD, MPH

9. Resisting the Disentanglement of Race and Religion in Public Health: How the Racialization of Religion Impacts Health / Mienah Z. Sharif, PhD, MPH, Héctor E. Alcalá, PhD, MPH, Bita Amani, PhD, MHS, and Asha Hassan, MPH

10. Racism and Cisheterosexism: Driving Health Inequities at the Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity / Ellesse-Roselee Akré, PhD, MA

11. Re-Imagining Policy: In Pursuit of Black Reproductive Justice / In Our Own Voice: National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda

III. Etiologies: Key Mechanisms By Which Racism Causes Poor Health

Structural Mechanisms and Social Determinants of Health

12. Structural Racism in Policing and Mass Incarceration: A Driver of Health Disparities in Black and Latiné Communities / Sharon G. E. Washington, EdD, MPH, Jasmine D. Graves, MPH, Amani Gilliam, and Robert E. Fullilove, EdD, MS

13. A Critical Race Feminista Praxis: A Public Health Call to Examine Latinx Students' Racial Stratification in Education / Tanya J. Gaxiola Serrano, PhD, Alma Itzé Flores, PhD, and Daniel G. Solórzano, PhD

Intrapersonal Mechanisms

14. John Henryism, Systemic Racism, and the Cardiometabolic Health of Black Americans / Sherman A. James, PhD, Allana T. Forde, PhD, MPH, and LaShaunta M. Glover, PhD, MS

15. Racism Across the Life Course / Roland J. Thorpe, Jr., PhD,, Keith C. Norris, MD, PhD, Bettina M. Beech, DrPH, MPH, and Marino A. Bruce, PhD, MSRC, MDiv

IV. Antiracism In Action: Interventions And Strategies To Address The Health Impacts Of Racism

Making Institutional Change: Health Care, the Workforce, and Universities

16. View From the Front Lines: A Local Public Health Department Advancing Antiracism / Ousman Laast-Maiga, MPH, Julian L. Watkins, MD, Amaka Anekwe, RDN, MS, Korin E. Parrella, MPH, Nina Rembert-Wolkwitz, MPH, Haniya Abbasi, MPH, Jocelyn Valdez, MPH, Meera P. Kumanan, MPH, Xavier Bost, and Michelle E. Morse, MD, MPH

17. Health Care: Antiracism Organizing for Culture and Institutional Change in Cancer Care / Kristin Z. Black, PhD, MPH, Stephanie L. Baker, PhD, MS, PT, Linda B. Robertson, DrPH, MSN, Alexandra F. Lightfoot, EdD, Kimberly M. Alexander, MPH, Deanna Befus, PhD, RN, Crystal T. Dixon, MPH, MA, Katrina R. Ellis, PhD, MPH, MSW, Fatima Guerrab, MPH, Jennifer C. Schaal, MD, Beth Smith, RN, MSN, Jennifer H. Tang, MD, MSCR, Kari Thatcher, MPH, Rachel Urrutia, MD, MS, Sonja M. Wilson, EdD, MSN, Christina M. Yongue, MPH, and Eugenia Eng, DrPH, MPH

Improving the Profession of Public Health

18. Epidemiology: Why Epidemiologists Must Reckon With Racism / Nancy Krieger, PhD

19. Environmental Slavery: America's Original Sin Continued / Sacoby Wilson, PhD, MS

20. Critical Race Theory's Antiracism Approaches: Moving From the Ivory Tower to the Front Lines of Public Health / Kia Skrine Jeffers, PhD, RN, PHN, and Chandra L. Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS

21. In Pursuit of Health Equity: Collaborations to Promote Community Research Literacy and Participatory Action Research / Melody S. Goodman, PhD, and Vetta Sanders Thompson, PhD

V. Moving Forward Collectively

22. The Art of Antiracism: Power, Poetry, and Creative Expression in the Struggle for Health Justice / Ryan J. Petteway, DrPH, MPH, Shanaé R. Burch, EdD, EdM, and LeConté J. Dill, DrPH, MPH

23. Policy Applications of a Multilevel Framework for Health Equity / Brian D. Smedley, PhD

24. In Search of (Poetic) Health Justice: Public Health Development in Context of Racism's Destruction and (Poetic) Resistance's Creativity / Shanaé R. Burch, EdD, EdM, Ryan J. Petteway, DrPH, MPH, and LeConté J. Dill, DrPH, MPH.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Racism

ISBN:

9780875533520

0875533523

OCLC:

1443931629