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Naming Racism
Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD Research Director on Social Determinants of Health
Division of Adult and Community Health
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Dual Reality:
A Restaurant Saga
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Levels of racism
• Institutionalized
• Personally-mediated
• Internalized
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Institutionalized racism
• Differential access to the goods, services, and opportunities of society, by “race”
• Codified in societal structures, processes, and values
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Characteristics
• Historical
• Legalized
• Persistent
• Normative
• Includes both acts of commission and acts of omission
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Manifestations
• Material conditions
• Access to power
• White privilege
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Material conditions
• Housing
• Education
• Employment
• Income and wealth
• Access to health care
• Toxic dump locations
• Neighborhood resources
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Access to power
• Information
– Health information, one’s own history
• Resources
– Capital, organizational, political
• Voice
– Voting rights, representation in government, media coverage
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White privilege
• White as normal
• White as superior
• White as raceless
• Sense of entitlement
• Invisibility of others
• Hypervisibility of others
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Measurement
• Distribution of resources
• Distribution of risks
• Absence of representation
• Examine current status as well as historical trends
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Remedies
• Separation
• Integration
• Self-determination
– Power to decide, power to act, control of resources
• Reparations
• 100% inheritance tax
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Debates
• “Race” and racism in relation to class
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Personally-mediated racism
• Differential assumptions about the abilities, motives, and intents of others, by “race”
• Differential actions toward others, by “race”
• Prejudice and discrimination
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Characteristics
• Interpersonal
• Can be unintentional
• Ranges from subtle to blatant
• Often denied or attributed to other causes
• Constitutes “everyday racism”
• Includes both acts of commission and acts of omission
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Manifestations
• Lack of respect
– Poor or no service
– Failure to communicate options
• Suspicion
– Shopkeeper vigilance
– Everyday avoidance (street crossing, purse clutching, empty seats)
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Manifestations (cont)
• Devaluation
– Surprise at competence
– Stifling of aspirations
• Scapegoating
– Rosewood
– Charles Stuart
– Susan Smith
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Manifestations (cont)
• Dehumanization
– Police brutality
– Sterilization abuses
– Hate crimes
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Measurement
• Patterns of behavior
– Medical procedures
– Hiring and promotion
– Criminal sentencing
• Formal discrimination complaints
• Double applicant test cases
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Remedies
• Acknowledge that racism is real
• Teach your children about racism
• Develop a support group
• Speak up on the spot
• Monitor outcomes by “race”
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Debates
• Multiculturalism versus anti-racism
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Internalized racism
• Acceptance by members of the stigmatized “races” of negative messages about our own abilities and intrinsic worth
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Characteristics
• Not believing in others who look like us, and not believing in ourselves
• Accepting limitations to our own full humanity
– Spectrum of dreams
– Right to self-determination
– Range of self-expression
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Manifestations
• Embracing whiteness
– Hair straighteners and bleaching creams
– Skin tone stratification
– “The white man’s ice is colder”
• Self-devaluation
– Racial slurs as nicknames
– Cultural rejection
– Fratricide
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Manifestations (cont)
• Resignation, helplessness, hopelessness
– School drop-out
– Voter non-participation
– Risky health practices
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Measurement
• Doll tests
• Self-efficacy scales
• Acculturation scales
• Voting history
• Hiring / purchasing history
• Club memberships by skin color
• Dating histories by skin color
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Remedies
• Avoid the negative messages
– Separate within the United States
– Move from the United States
• Counteract the negative messages
– Organize affinity groups
– Provide a range of role models
– Surround with positive images
– Teach a more complete history
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Remedies (cont)
• Dismantle the negative messages
– Control the media
– Control the schools
– Control what is said in families
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Debates
• Assimilation versus cultural nationalism
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Levels of Racism:
A Gardener’s Tale
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Institutionalized racism
• Initial historical insult
• Structural barriers
• Inaction in face of need
• Societal norms
• Biological determinism
• Unearned privilege
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Personally-mediated racism
• Intentional
• Unintentional
• Acts of commission
• Acts of omission
• Maintains structural barriers
• Condoned by societal norms
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Internalized racism
• Reflects systems of privilege
• Reflects societal values
• Erodes individual sense of value
• Undermines collective action
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Who is the gardener?
Government
• Power to decide
• Power to act
• Control of resources
Dangerous when
• Allied with one group
• Not concerned with equity
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Measures of Racism Working Group
• Develop a conceptual framework for understanding the impacts of racism on health
• Review currently available measures of racism
• Propose currently available and new measures of racism for use on the BRFSS, NHIS, and NHANES
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Reactions to Race Pilot Module
Earlier you told me your race.
Now I will you ask you some questions about reactions to your race.
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Question 1
How do other people usually classify
you in this country?
Would you say White, Black or African American,
Hispanic or Latino, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Other
Pacific Islander, American Indian or Alaska Native, or
some other group?
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Question 2
How often do you think about your
race?
Would you say never, once a year, once a month,
once a week, once a day, once an hour, or
constantly?
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02040
12 .35
10 .817 .5
29 .5
2 .8
22 .1
percent of respondents nev er1 /y ear1 /month1 /w eek1/day1 /hourc ons tan tly
Black women (Black Women's Health Study, n = 49,709)
02040
11 .65 .5
13 .820 .4
26 .2
1 .5
21
percent of respondents nev er1 /y ear1 /month1 /w eek1/day1 /hourc ons tan tly
Black women (Nurses ' Health Study II, n = 1,292)
02040 50 .2
17 .419 .39 .6
3 .1 0 0 .3percent of respondents nev er1 /y ear1 /month1 /w eek1/day1 /hourc ons tan tly
White women (Nurses ' Health Study II, n = 88,188)
How often do you think about your race?
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02040
24 .920 .523 .7
157.8
0 .28percent of respondents nev er1 /y ear1 /month1 /w eek1/day1 /hourc ons tan tly
Asian women (Nurses ' Health Study II, n = 1,509)
02040
25 .818 .1
24 .917 .5
9 .70 .23 .7percent of respondents nev er1 /y ear1 /month1 /w eek1/day1 /hourc ons tan tly
Hispanic women (Nurses ' Health Study II, n = 1,243)
How often do you think about your race?
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02060
12.55.4
19.631
24.4
1.2 6percent of respondentsnev er1/y ear1/month1/w eek1/day1/hourc ons tantly
Pakeha (n = 168)
02060
1.91.90.94.79.34.7
76.6
percent of respondentsnev er1/y ear1/month1/w eek1/day1/hourc ons tantly
Maori (n = 107)
02060
3.7 03.79.322.2
7.4
53.7
percent of respondentsnev er1/y ear1/month1/w eek1/day1/hourc ons tantly
Mixed Maori identity (n = 54)
New Zealand: How often do you think about your race?
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Question 3
[For those who are employed for wages, self-
employed, or out of work for less than one year]
Within the past 12 months at work, do
you feel you were treated worse than,
the same as, or better than people of
other races?
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Question 4
Within the past 12 months when
seeking health care, do you feel your
experiences were worse than, the same
as, or better than the experiences of
people of other races?
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Question 5
Within the past 30 days, have you felt
emotionally upset, for example angry,
sad, or frustrated, as a result of how
you were treated based on your race?
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Question 6
Within the past 30 days, have you
experienced any physical symptoms, for
example a headache, an upset
stomach, tensing of your muscles, or a
pounding heart, as a result of how you
were treated based on your race?
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Uses of the data
• Understand variability of racial climate and experiences of unfair treatment in the USA
• Raise questions about local processes that may be creating inequity
• Use “best practices” areas as models in terms of promoting equity
• Monitor progress toward equity
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Racism measures needed
Institutionalized
Personally mediated
Internalized
Individual
Aggregate
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American Public Health Association
Research and Intervention on Racism
as a Fundamental Cause of Ethnic Disparities in Health
Interim Policy 00-LB-1
http://www.apha.org
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APHA (1)
Reaffirms previous American Public Health Association policies that have condemned racism and its impacts on health and health care;
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APHA (2)
Commends the National League of Cities on their Undoing Racism agenda and their efforts to launch a National Campaign Against Racism;
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APHA (3)
Calls on the President and the Congress of the United States to endorse a National Campaign Against Racism;
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APHA (4)
Calls on the Congress of the United States to convene the Institute of Medicine to prepare a report that summarizes our current knowledge on the impacts of racism on health and identifies points of intervention;
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APHA (5)
Calls on the Department of Health and Human Services to explicitly address racism as a part of its national Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health by the Year 2010;
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APHA (6)
Calls on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health to place a high priority on research on the impacts of racism on the health and well-being of the nation;
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APHA (7)
Calls on the President and the Congress of the United States to appropriate funds for investigating the impacts of racism on the health and well being of the nation;
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APHA (8)
Calls on the President and the Congress of the United States to appropriate additional funds for developing evidence-based programs to eliminate ethnic health disparities; and
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APHA (9)
Calls on the President, the Congress, and the Judicial Branch of the United States to recognize and promote legal redress for discrimination in health and health care.
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United Nations
World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination,
Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance
Durban, South Africa August 31 - September 7, 2001
http://www.un.org/rights/racism/index.html
http://ngoworldconference.org
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The Impacts of Racism on Health
Implications for practice
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Vigorously investigate the basis of observed “race”-associated differences in health outcomes
Interpret all “race”-related findings
Propose follow-up studies
View “race”-associated differences as important clues to be mined
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Acknowledge that “race” is a social construct, not a biologic determinant
Explicitly measure genes if there is a genetic hypothesis
Model “race” as a contextual variable in multilevel analysis
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Acknowledge the diversity within “racial” groups
Explicitly measure culture if there is a cultural hypothesis Collect information on ancestry, migration history, and language
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Acknowledge the association between “race” and social class, an association perpetuated by institutionalized racism
Explicitly measure social class if there is a social class hypothesis Include measures of wealth, neighborhood characteristics, changes over lifespan Measure class on all federal and state data
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Acknowledge the present-day existence and impacts of racism
Develop explicit measures of institutionalized, personally-mediated, and internalized racism Examine the role of racism in “race”-associated differences and in diminished health for all
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Continue to collect data by “race” as long as there are “race”-associated differences in health outcomes
Specify why information is collected Describe how “race” is measured Collect other data, including measures of racism, social class, culture, and genes
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Train persons from stigmatized backgrounds as epidemiologists
These scientists will bring new perspectives to the questions we have already asked They will also raise new questions
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Partner with communities to raise questions, generate hypotheses, and share findings
Recognize and respect the capacity within communities Return information to communities so they can advocate for change
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Initiate a national conversation on racism
Poor health of the stigmatized Diminished health for all Waste of human resources
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