Racism In African American Culture

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The webinar I am writing about was on the American Public Health Association website. Naming and Addressing Racism: A Primer webinar was presented by Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD, MPH, and Camara P. Jones, MD, MPH, PhD on July 21, 2015 at 12:00 PM mountain standard time. There were many events in recent months, where we were force to realize that there are still inequalities that existe in society today. As a result, this webinar was one of the four series that the American Public Health Association decided to put together to explore racism and how did that play a role in our health care system today. The webinar began with PhD. Kumanyika a brief introduction to the topic of racism and health using Black American examples and
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Jones then talked about the three different types of racism and how it impacted an individual and creates disparities Intuitional Racism, which was giving difference access to goods, services, and opportunities of society because of race. It is like when we were doing the roots module for class where the African-American were living in their own environment and once they moved to a White populated area the White people started to move out of the neighborhood. She also explained Personally-mediated Racism, which she defined as the different assumption about abilities, motives, and intent of others, by “race”. This then leads into the topic of prejudice and discrimination because if you look a certain way, all of those stereotypes were automatically applied to you with out giving you a chance of defending yourself. The last type of racism that she talked about was Internalized Racism where we were accepted by the stigmatized “races” of negative messages about our self. This limits what we have access to health because we believed that the health care system was only meant for people how can afford the service and that we only seek care if it is really …show more content…
looked at the experience of interpersonal racism as an inequality between the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Australia. In their study, the authors found that the Aboriginal people often reported that they have poorer physical and mental health and that was after they controlled the age, sex, employment, and education. They also found that there was a physical component that was associated with the racism that was measured in the Aboriginal people. This article support PhD. Jones, when she was talking about institutional racism and define it as the difference access to goods because of race. Although PhD. Jones was focusing more on African American population and Larson et al. was focusing on the Aboriginal population both believed that institutional racism was the cause of their bad experience with health treatments. The following quote is from the article which agrees with other studies that was found in the United States, “The lack of difference in Aboriginal respondents’ experience of racially based treatment by sex, education or employment status is consistent with finding for African American…” (Larson et al., 2007, p. 326). Both the webinar and the article showed that racism is not a local issue, but it is a global issue and it need to be address before health care could be available and equal to

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