Mapping "Race": Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)

ISBN 10: 0813561361 / ISBN 13: 9780813561363

Published by Rutgers University Press, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mapping "Race": Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813561361
• ISBN 13: 9780813561363
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: like_new

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Synopsis

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

About the Author

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.