Racist Health Care: Reforming an Unjust Health Care System to Meet theNeeds of African-Americans
- Parent Category: Health and Health Care
- Category: Eliminating Health Disparities
- Administrator
- Hits: 1362
- Racist Health Care: Reforming an Unjust Health Care System to Meet theNeeds of African-Americans
- I. INTRODUCTION
- II. DISPARITY IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN-AMERICAN HEALTH STATUS
- III. INSTITUTIONAL RACISM AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN HEALTH STATUS
- IV. HEALTH POLICY AND ELIMINATING THE HEALTH DISPARITY
- V. CONCLUSION
- All Pages
Vernellia R. Randall
Vernellia R. Randall , Racist Health Care: Reforming an Unjust Health Care System to Meet the Needs of African-Americans, 3 Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine 127-193 (Spring, 1993)(312 footnotes omitted)
“Racist” and “racism” are provocative words in American society. To some, these words have reached the level of curse words in their offensiveness. Yet, “racist” and “racism” are descriptive words of a reality that cannot be denied. Ethnic-Americans live daily with the effects of both institutional and individual racism. Race issues are so fundamental in American society that they seem almost an integral component. Some Americans believe that race is the primary determinant of human abilities and capacities. Some Americans behave as if racial differences produce inherent superiority in European-Americans. In fact, such individuals respond to African-Americans and European-Americans differently merely because of race. As a consequence, many African- Americans are injured by judgments or actions that are directly or indirectly racist.
Much of the attention of the last 20 years has focused on individual racist behavior. However, just as individuals can act in racist ways, so can institutions. Institutions can behave in ways that are overtly racist (i.e., specifically excluding African-Americans from services) or inherently racist (i.e., adopting policies that while not specifically directed at excluding African-Americans, nevertheless result in their exclusion). Therefore, institutions can respond to African-Americans and European-Americans differently. Institutional behavior can injure African-Americans; and, when it does, it is nonetheless racist in outcome if not in intent.
- Prev
- Next >>
On the Web Since 1995
Vernellia R. Randall
Professor of Law
The University of Dayton
School of Law
Dayton, OH 45469-2772
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Site Statistics
- Unique Visits Today1357
- Visits This Week6600
- Visits Previous Week6920
- Total Articles743
- New Articles This Week0
Latest Articles
- Do Judges Vary in Their Treatment of Race?
- Racial Disparities in Wiretap Applications Before Federal Judges
- Domestic Workers and A Legacy of Legislative Exclusion
- The Statute Whose Name We Dare Not Speak: Emtala and the Affordable Care Act
- Motherhood Preconceived: The Emergence of the Preconception Health and Health Care Initiative
- Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress
- The Return of Biological Race? Regulating Innovations in Race and Genetics Through Administrative Agency Race Impact Assessments
- A Short History of Immigrant Rights in the United States
- Black Greek-letter Organizations : Belief, Truth, and Positive Organizational Deviance
- “Unemployed (And Black) Need Not Apply”
- Black Marriage, White People, Red Herrings
- The End of Reparations Talk: Reparations in an Obama World
- Did I Do That? An Argument for Requiring Pennsylvania to Evaluate the Racial Impact of Medicaid Policy Decisions Prior to Implementation
- Striving for Equality, but Settling for the Status Quo in Health Care: Is Title VI More Illusory than Real?
- Tragedy and Remedy: Reparations for Disparities in Black Health
- Is Massachusetts Health Insurance Reform Legislation: An Effective Tool for Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care?
- To Check or Not to Check: New EEOC Enforcement Guidance on the Use of Criminal History Information in Making Hiring Decisions
- Lean In and One Percent Feminism
- A Patient's Right to Choose Is Not Always Black and White: Long Term Care Facility Discrimination and the Color of Care
- Principles to Guide Society's Response to Incarcerated Offenders with a Mental Disorder
- Arrests of and Forced Interventions on Pregnant Women in the United States, 1973-2005: Implications for Women's Legal Status and Public Health
- What Happens to the Women Who Fall Through the Cracks of Health Care Reform? Lessons from Massachusetts
- The Right Choice for Elections: How Choice Voting Will End Gerrymandering and Expand Minority Voting Rights, from City Councils to Congress
- It's [Not] a Black Thing: the Black/gay Split over Same-sex Marriage--a Critical [Race] Perspective
- Indian Tribes: Evolving into Nationhood
- “[This] I Know from My Grandfather:” The Battle for Admissibility of Indigenous Oral History as Proof of Tribal Land Claims
- The Assimilation of Native Juveniles via Federal Policies on Education, Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice
- Hit it and Quit It”: Responses to Black Girls' Victimization in School
- Public Health Preparedness and the Law in Communities of Color
- Why Empirically Destabilizing the “Race” Ipsa Loquitur Trope Matters: Reorienting Equal Protection Around Social Practices
Related Articles
- Signs of Racism
- Holder's Speech Lets White People Off the Hook
- The Many Costs of Discrimination: the Case of Middle-class African Americans
- Institutional Practices and the African American Boy
- African-Americans, Latinos, and the Construction of Race
- Racist Myths about Mexican Immigrants
- Post-civil War Restrictions on Interstate Migration
- Post Reconstruction Justice
- Political Autonomy as a Form of Reparations
- Reparation Debate Beyond 1865
- Unjust Enrichment and Reparations for Slavery
- Takings Clause Solution to Reparations
- Preliminary Report on Race and Washingtons Criminal Justice System
- Asian and African American and the Criminal Justice System
- Created Equal Report: Racial and Ethnic in the Criminal Justice System
- Mandatory Minimum Sentencing and Black Males
- Foster Care for Minority Children
- Racial Discrimination and Directorial Duty of Care
- Hela Cells and Unjust Enrichment in the Human Body
- Toxins Targeted at Minorities: The Racist Undertones of"Environmentally-Friendly" Initiatives
- Shadow Report to CERD on Health 2001
- Human Rights Violations in Health Care
- "Like Wolves in Sheep's Clothing": Combating Racial Bias in Washington State's Criminal Justice System
- Eliminating Racial Discrimination in Health Care: A Call for State HealthCare Anti-discrimination Law
- Racial Discrimination in Health Care in the United States as a Violation ofthe International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,
- Does Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposal Ensure [E]qual[ity of HealthCare for Ethnic Americans and the Poor?
- Inequality in Health Care Is Killing African Americans
- Managed Care Utilization Review and Financial Risk Shifting:Compensating Patients for Health Care Cost Containment Injuries
- Public Health Preparedness and theLaw in Communities of Color
- Slavery Segregation and Racism : Trusting the Health Care System Ain'tAlways Easy! An African American Perspective on Bioethics
- Disproportionate Representation of Minority Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: a Lack ofClarity and Too Much Disparity among States addressing the Issue
