Mapping "race" : critical approaches to health disparities research
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Mapping "race" : critical approaches to health disparities research
(Critical issues in health and medicine)
Rutgers University Press, c2013
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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. Gomez, Joseph L. Graves Jr., Janet E. Helms, Derek Kenji Iwamoto, Jonathan Kahn, Jay S. Kaufman, Mai M. Kindaichi, Simon J. Craddock Lee, Nancy Lopez, Ethan H. Mereish, Matthew Miller, Gabriel R. Sanchez, Aliya Saperstein, R. Burciaga Valdez, Vicki D. Ybarra
Table of Contents
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. Gomez
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 Lopez
Notes on Contributors
Index
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