Law  - Fall 2009
Racism, Health Disparities, and the Law
Professor Vernellia R. Randall
The University of Dayton School of Law

 Social Policy is Health Policy is Law

Improving Racial Inequality
 

• 2007 State of Black America Report (pdf)
• Dying While Black,  pp. 19 - 24, 31-62
• Race and Racism (Background Paper)(pdf)
• Minority Health Status
  • African American
  • American Indian/Alaskan Native
  • Asian American
  • Hispanic American
  • Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander
• Genetics and Health (pdf)
• Structural Racism

Social Inclusion

• Social Inclusion - Background (pdf)
• Race Matters: Civic Participation
• Social Exclusion and Brain Function
• Social Exclusion in the United States
• Whites Swim in Racial Preference
• Reducing Poverty by Tackling Social Exclusion

• Unnatural Causes:  When The Bough Breaks (In Class)
• Levels of Racism: The Gardeners' Tale

Social Inclusion

• Unnatural Causes - Becoming American (In Class)
• Anthony Iton Interview (mp3)

• ACORN (Association of Community Organization for Reform Now):
  www.acorn.org
• Applied Research Center: www.arc.org
• Center for Social Inclusion: www.centerforsocialinclusion.org
• Poverty and Race Research Action Council: www.prrac.org
• The Praxis Project: www.thepraxisproject.org
• WHO Social Exclusion Knowledge Network
   

In this audio podcast excerpted from an original interview, Anthony Iton, director of the Alameda County Department of Public Health, talks about the extraordinary health of recent Latino immigrants and what we can all learn from them, the importance of hope, the power of community organizing, and why it's in all our best interest to tackle inequities sooner rather than later.

• Applied Research Center: www.arc.org
• Equal Justice Society: www.equaljusticesociety.org
• Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies: www.jointcenter.org
• Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity: www.kirwaninstitute.org
• Leadership Conference on Civil Rights: www.civilrights.org
• Poverty and Race Research Action Council: www.prrac.org
• Strategic Actions for a Just Economy: www.saje.net
• The Opportunity Agenda: www.opportunityagenda.org
• The Praxis Project: www.thepraxisproject.org
   

• Barnes-Josiah, Debora. Undoing Racism in Public Health: A Blueprint for Action in Urban Maternal and Child Health. Omaha, NE: CityMatCH, 2004.
• David, Richard and James Collins, Jr. “Disparities in Infant Mortality: What’s Genetics Got to Do
  with It?” American Journal of Public Health, 97 no.7 (July 2007): 1191-1197.
• Drexler, Madeline. “How racism hurts – literally,” Boston Globe, July 15, 2007.
  Jones, Camara P. “Levels of Racism: A Teoretic Framework and a Gardener’s Tale,” American Journal of Public Health, 90 (2000): 1212–1215.
• Jones, Camara P. “Confronting Institutionalized Racism,” Phylon, 50 (2003): 1-2.
  Lu, Michael and Neil Halfon. “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Birth Outcomes: A Life-Course
  perspective” Maternal and Child Health Journal, 7 no.1 (2003):13-30.
• Maternal Nutrition and Infant Mortality in the Context of Relationality. Washington, DC: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Health Policy Institute, July 2007.
• Race, Stress and Social Support: Addressing the Crisis in Black Infant Mortality. Washington, DC: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Health Policy Institute, September 2007.
• Williams, David and Chiquita Collins, “Racial Residential Segregation: A Fundamental Cause  of Racial Disparities in Health,” Public Health Reports, 116 no. 5 (Sep-Oct 2001): 404–416.
   

 Levels of Racism: The Gardener's Tale

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In this original interview, Dr. Camara Jones, research director on the social determinants of health at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, discusses her pioneering work on measuring racism and health. She describes three levels of racism (personally mediated, internal and institutional), the stress of everyday racism, and the need to expand our thinking about how racism, opportunity and health inequities are structured and intertwined.

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David Williams Interview

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