Section outline

  • Lecture:  Racism and Intersectionality

    Methods for investigation of impact of racism, as well as the intersection between different dimensions of vulnerability

    Faculty:  Christine Dehlendorf

    Location:      Mission Hall 1406

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Watch URL
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    • Required Reading:

    • Bowleg Intersectionality 2012 File
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    • Viruell-Fuentes IntersectionalityImmigration 2012 File
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    • Braveman PTB File
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    • Williams racism review 2009 File
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    • Resources:


    • Assignment: Please consider these questions below when reading each article. If you are unable to attend the class session, please post answers to these questions to the forum by midnight on the 18th.
       
      Williams article:
       
      1.    How does racism and other forms of discrimination lead to health disparities?
      2.    What are some identified challenges in measuring discrimination?
      3.    What are the most important areas to focus on in research on racism? How can this lead to interventions to impact health disparities?
       
      Braveman article:
       
      1.    What type of interventions could be informed by the findings of this study?
      2.    What are the implications for the findings of this study on the intergenerational impact of racism?
       
      Bowleg:
       
      1.    How does intersectionality relate to the socioecological model? To Krieger’s metaphor of the fractal?
      2.    What are the biggest challenges you see to incorporating intersectionality into your work? What are the benefits?
       
      Viruell-Fuentes: (Focus on reading through the first half of the first column on page 2012. If you are interested in immigrant health and policy, the rest of the article will also be interesting, but just trying to target your assignments.)
       
      1.    What do you think of Viruell-Fuentes’s critique of “cultural” explanations for health disparities?
      2.    How does intersectionality add to the understanding of health disparities impacting Latinx populations?