Mapping "Race"

Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research

Laura E. Gómez, Nancy López (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

246 Seiten

2013
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-6136-3 (ISBN)

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Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel social construction, this has profound methodological implications for the sciences and social sciences. Race must inform how we design large-scale data collection and how scientists utilize race in the context of specific research questions. This landmark collection argues for the recognition of those implications for research and suggests ways in which they may be integrated into future scientific endeavors. It concludes on a prescriptive note, providing an arsenal of multidisciplinary, conceptual, and methodological tools for studying race specifically within the context of health inequalities.

Contributors: John A. Garcia, Arline T. Geronimus, Laura E. Gómez, Joseph L. Graves Jr., Janet E. Helms, Derek Kenji Iwamoto, Jonathan Kahn, Jay S. Kaufman, Mai M. Kindaichi, Simon J. Craddock Lee, Nancy López, Ethan H. Mereish, Matthew Miller, Gabriel R. Sanchez, Aliya Saperstein, R. Burciaga Valdez, Vicki D. Ybarra

LAURA E. GÓMEZ is a professor of law, sociology, and Chicano studies at the University of California at Los Angeles. She is the author of Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race. NANCY LÓPEZ is an associate professor of sociology at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys: Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Education.

List of Figures and Tables
Foreword by R. Burciaga Valdez
Preface

1. Introduction: Taking the Social Construction of Race Seriously in Health Disparities Research Laura E. Gómez
Part I: Charting the Problem
2. The Politics of Framing Health Disparities: Markets and Justice Jonathan Kahn 3. Looking at the World through"Race"-Colored Glasses: The Fallacy of Ascertainment Bias in Biomedical Research and Practice Joseph L. Graves Jr. 4. Ethical Dilemmas in Statistical Practice: The Probelm of Race in Biomedicine Jay S. Kaufman 5. A Holistic Alternative to Current Survey Research Approaches to Race John A . Garcia
Part II: Navigating Diverse Empirical Settings

6. Organizational Practice and Social Constraints: Problems of Racial Identity Data Collection in Cancer Care and Research Simon J. Craddock Lee 7. Lessons from Political Science: Health Status and Improving How We Study Race Gabriel R. Sanchez and Vickie D. Ybarra 8. Advancing Asian American Mental Health Research by Enhancing Racial Identity Measures Derek Kenji Iwamoto, Mai M. Kindaichi, and Matthew Miller
Part III. Surveying Solutions

9. Representing the Multidimensionality of Race in Survey Research Allya Saperstein 10. How Racial-Group Comparisons Create Misinformation in Depression Research: Using Racial Identity Theory to Conceptualize Health Disparities Janet E. Helms and Ethan H. Mereish 11. Jedi Public Health: Leveraging Contingencies of Social Identity to Grasp and Eliminiate Racial Health Inequality Arline T. Geronimus 12. Contextualizing Lived Race-Gender and the Racialized-Gendered Social Determinants of Health Nancy López
Notes on Contributors
Index

Reihe/Serie	Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Co-Autor	Laura E. Gómez, Nancy López
Vorwort	R. Burciaga Valdez
Zusatzinfo	6 figures, 8 tables
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	367 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Humangenetik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8135-6136-1 / 0813561361
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-6136-3 / 9780813561363
Zustand	Neuware