Mapping "race": Critical Approaches To Health Disparities Research (critical Issues In Health And Medicine)
by Matthew Miller /
2013 / English / PDF
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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.
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:
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
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