Mapping "Race": Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research

Published by Rutgers University Press 2013

Mapping "Race"

Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research

Edited by: Laura E. Gómez and Nancy López
With contributions by: Laura E. Gómez , Nancy López , Jonathan Kahn , Joseph L. Graves Jr. , Jay S. Kaufman , John A. Garcia , Simon J. Craddock Lee , Gabriel R. Sánchez , Vickie D. Ybarra , Derek Kenji Iwamoto , Mai M. Kindaichi , Matthew Miller , Aliya Saperstein , Janet E. Helms , Ethan H. Mereish and Arline T. Geronimus
Preface by: R. Burciaga Valdez

In the series Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813561387

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About this book

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

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

"The essays from various disciplines in this collection thoughtfully examine how conceptions of race (or ethnicity) create disparities in health care and its outcomes. Recommended."

— Choice

"Mapping 'Race' provides keen insights about race as a social construction. With its coherent theme and presentation of possible ways to study race and health, this book will fill an important vacuum in the scholarship on the topic."

— David T. Takeuchi, University of Washington

"an important collection that introduces some of the specific methodological debates on the intersection between race and health inequalities in the USA."

— Ethnic and Racial Studies

"The arguments in Mapping 'Race' are at the cutting edge of research; the authors' tight focus on health and health disparities is sensible and timely. Besides outlining racial disparities in health, the authors provide an executable set of solutions."

— Rachel T. Kimbro, Rice University

"What is race? The contributors in Mapping Race brilliantly renew, reconsider, and reimagine this question in light of the pressing new challenges facing the way we think about diverging health outcomes. Mapping Race is necessary reading."

— American Journal of Sociology

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword R. Burciaga Valdez Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Chapter 1. Introduction: Taking the Social Construction of Race Seriously in Health Disparities Research Laura E. Gómez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I.Charting the Problem
Chapter 2. The Politics of Framing Health Disparities: Markets and Justice Jonathan Kahn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Chapter 3. Looking at the World through “Race”-Colored Glasses: The Fallacy of Ascertainment Bias in Biomedical Research and Practice Joseph L. Graves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Chapter 4. Ethical Dilemmas in Statistical Practice: The Problem of Race in Biomedicine Jay S. Kaufman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Chapter 5. A Holistic Alternative to Current Survey Research Approaches to Race John A. Garcia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Part II. Navigating Diverse Empirical Settings
Chapter 6. Organizational Practice and Social Constraints: Problems of Racial Identity Data Collection in Cancer Care and Research Simon J. Craddock Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Chapter 7 Lessons from Political Science: Health Status and Improving How We Study Race Gabriel R. Sanchez and Vickie D. Ybarra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
Chapter 8. Advancing Asian American Mental Health Research by Enhancing Racial Identity Measures Derek Kenji Iwamoto, Mai M. Kindaichi and Matthew Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Part III. Surveying Solutions
Chapter 9. Representing the Multidimensionality of Race in Survey Research Aliya Saperstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Chapter 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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
Chapter 11. Jedi Public Health: Leveraging Contingencies of Social Identity to Grasp and Eliminate Racial Health Inequality Arline T. Geronimus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Chapter 12. Contextualizing Lived Race-Gender and the Racialized-Gendered Social Determinants of Health Nancy López Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217

Language: English
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 246
Illustrations
- Other: 6 figures, 8 tables

eBook

Published: August 12, 2013
ISBN: 9780813561387