{"id":1535,"date":"2018-11-13T03:10:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T03:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwmedptn\/?page_id=1535"},"modified":"2019-10-15T22:24:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T22:24:33","slug":"race-and-ethnicity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwmedptn\/strategies-programs\/healthcare-equity\/hcetoolkit\/race-and-ethnicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Race and Ethnicity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Race\u00a0<\/b>\u2013 (1)<\/strong>\u00a0Refers to groups of people who have differences and similarities in biological traits deemed by society to be socially significant; (2)<\/strong>\u00a0A political construction created to concentrate power with white people and legitimize dominance over non-white people; (3)<\/strong> A social construct that divides people into distinct groups based on characteristics such as physical appearance, ancestral heritage, cultural affiliation, and cultural history, ethnic classification, based on the social, economic, and political context of a society at a given period of time.<\/p>\n

Ethnicity<\/strong> \u2013 A social construct that divides people into smaller social groups based on characteristics such as shared sense of group membership, values, behavioral patterns, language, political and economic interests, history and ancestral geographical base.<\/p>\n

Racial and Ethnic Identity \u2013 <\/strong>An individual’s awareness and experience of being a member of a racial and ethnic group; the racial and ethnic categories that an individual chooses to describe him or herself based on such factors as biological heritage, physical appearance, cultural affiliation, early socialization, and personal experience.<\/p>\n

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Recommended Books<\/h1>\n

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"Author<\/strong>:\u00a0 Rebecca Skloot
\nPublished:<\/strong> February 2, 2010
\nISBN<\/strong>: 1400052173
\nISBN13:<\/strong> 9781400052172
\nPages:<\/strong>\u00a0 370<\/p>\n

\u201cIn telling Henrietta\u2019s story, Skloot draws from primary sources and personal interviews to provide insightful narrative accounts of Henrietta\u2019s childhood, young adulthood, diagnosis, illness, and tragic death. She also explores the birth and life of the immortal cell line HeLa, and shows how research involving HeLa has changed the landscape of medical research, leading to not only scientific and medical breakthroughs, but also new and evolving policies concerning the rights of patients and research subjects.\u201d \u2013 Random House, Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hillbilly Elegy<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"\"Author<\/strong>: J.D. Vance
\nPublished<\/strong>: June 28 2016
\nISBN<\/strong>:\u00a0 0062300547
\nISBN13<\/strong>: 9780062300546
\nPages<\/strong>:\u00a0 257<\/p>\n

\u201cJ.D. Vance\u2019s Hillbilly Elegy, part memoir, part social analysis, is a fascinating examination of culture, class, and the American dream of working class white Americans in Appalachia. Hillbilly Elegy explores how and when \u201chillbillies\u201d lost faith in the American dream and in any hope of upward mobility through the prism of Vance and his mother and grandparents. This examination of the personal and sociological problems facing America\u2019s white working class is a text that will engage college and university students and would spark many probing conversations if used in First-Year Experience and classroom adoption.\u201d \u2013 Harper Collins Publishers<\/a><\/p>\n

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"\"Author<\/strong>:\u00a0 Michelle Alexander
\nPublished<\/strong>:\u00a0 January 5, 2010
\nISBN<\/strong>: 1595581030
\nISBN13<\/strong>:\u00a09781595581037<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement.\u00a0The New Jim Crow\u00a0is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as \u201cbrave and bold,\u201d this book directly challenges the notion that the presidency of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that \u201cwe have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.\u201d By targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control\u2014relegating millions to a permanent second-class status\u2014even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness. In the words of Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, this book is a \u201ccall to action.\u201d \u2013 The New Press<\/a><\/p>\n

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Medical Apartheid:\u00a0 The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"\"Author<\/strong>: Harriet A. Washington
\nPublished<\/strong>: January 9, 2007
\nISBN<\/strong>: 0385509936
\nISBN13<\/strong>: 9780385509930
\nPages<\/strong>: 501<\/p>\n

\u201cMedical Apartheid<\/em>\u00a0is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge\u2014a tradition that continues today within some black populations. It reveals how blacks have historically been prey to grave-robbing as well as unauthorized autopsies and dissections. Moving into the twentieth century, it shows how the pseudoscience of eugenics and social Darwinism was used to justify experimental exploitation and shoddy medical treatment of blacks, and the view that they were biologically inferior, oversexed, and unfit for adult responsibilities. Shocking new details about the government\u2019s notorious Tuskegee experiment are revealed, as are similar, less-well-known medical atrocities conducted by the government, the armed forces, prisons, and private institutions.\u201d \u2013 Penguin Random House<\/a><\/p>\n

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White Fragility: Why it\u2019s so hard for White People to Talk about Racism<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

\"\"Author<\/strong>: Robin DiAngelo
\nISBN<\/strong>: 0807047414
\nISBN13<\/strong>:\u00a09780807047415<\/p>\n

Pages<\/strong>: 192<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this \u201cvital, necessary, and beautiful book\u201d (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and \u201callows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to \u2018bad people\u2019\u201d (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.\u201d \u2013 Beacon Press<\/a><\/p>\n

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What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation about Race in America<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"Author:<\/strong> Michael Eric Dyson
\nPublished:<\/strong> June 5, 2018
\nISBN:<\/strong>\u00a01250199417
\nISBN13:<\/strong>\u00a09781250199416
\nPages:<\/strong>\u00a0304<\/span><\/p>\n

“In 2015 BLM activist Julius Jones confronted Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton with an urgent query: \u201cWhat in your heart has changed that\u2019s going to change the direction of this country?\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t believe you just change hearts,\u201d she protested. \u201cI believe you change\u00a0laws<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fraught conflict between conscience and politics \u2013 between morality and power \u2013 in addressing race hardly began with Clinton. An electrifying and traumatic encounter in the sixties crystallized these furious disputes.<\/p>\n

In 1963 Attorney General Robert Kennedy sought out James Baldwin to explain the rage that threatened to engulf black America. Baldwin brought along some friends, including playwright Lorraine Hansberry, psychologist Kenneth Clark, and a valiant activist, Jerome Smith. It was Smith\u2019s relentless, unfiltered fury that set Kennedy on his heels, reducing him to sullen silence.<\/p>\n

Kennedy walked away from the nearly three-hour meeting angry \u2013 that the black folk assembled didn\u2019t understand politics, and that they weren\u2019t as easy to talk to as Martin Luther King. But especially that they were more interested in witness than policy. But Kennedy\u2019s anger quickly gave way to empathy, especially for Smith. \u201cI guess if I were in his shoes\u2026I might feel differently about this country.\u201d Kennedy set about changing policy \u2013 the meeting having transformed his thinking in fundamental ways.<\/p>\n

There was more: every big argument about race that persists to this day got a hearing in that room. Smith declaring that he\u2019d never fight for his country given its racist tendencies, and Kennedy being appalled at such lack of patriotism, tracks the disdain for black dissent in our own time. His belief that black folk were ungrateful for the Kennedys\u2019 efforts to make things better shows up in our day as the charge that black folk wallow in the politics of ingratitude and victimhood. The contributions of black queer folk to racial progress still cause a stir. BLM has been accused of harboring a covert queer agenda. The immigrant experience, like that of Kennedy \u2013 versus the racial experience of Baldwin \u2013 is a cudgel to excoriate black folk for lacking hustle and ingenuity. The questioning of whether folk who are interracially partnered can authentically communicate black interests persists. And we grapple still with the responsibility of black intellectuals and artists to bring about social change.<\/p>\n

What Truth Sounds Like<\/i>\u00a0exists at the tense intersection of the conflict between politics and prophecy \u2013 of whether we embrace political resolution or moral redemption to fix our fractured racial landscape. The future of race and democracy hang in the balance.\u201d \u2013 MacMillan Publishers<\/a><\/p>\n

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Recommended Videos<\/h1>\n

Where Heritage = Hate: The Truth about the Confederacy in America<\/em><\/h3>\n
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“A presentation by Jeffery Robinson, ACLU Deputy Legal Director and Director of the Trone Center for Justice and Equality.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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President Trump claims that removing Confederate symbols amounts to erasing history. False. This is about whether we as a nation choose to honor those who made their names fighting for white supremacy and slavery. Taking down these symbols from our public spaces is a critical step toward rooting out racial injustice and creating a more inclusive and just society.<\/p>\n

We need to be informed for this fight. Jeffery Robinson will speak about the dark history of the Confederacy and the monuments built in public spaces around the country \u2013 what these symbols really mean and how they\u2019ve been used by politicians to rewrite history and incite racial violence. Then we\u2019ll roll up our sleeves and join the movement to take down every last one.”\u00a0\u2013 ACLU Washington<\/a><\/p>\n