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Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 753 |
Release | : 2004-10-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0309092116 |
In their later years, Americans of different racial and ethnic backgrounds are not in equally good-or equally poor-health. There is wide variation, but on average older Whites are healthier than older Blacks and tend to outlive them. But Whites tend to be in poorer health than Hispanics and Asian Americans. This volume documents the differentials and considers possible explanations. Selection processes play a role: selective migration, for instance, or selective survival to advanced ages. Health differentials originate early in life, possibly even before birth, and are affected by events and experiences throughout the life course. Differences in socioeconomic status, risk behavior, social relations, and health care all play a role. Separate chapters consider the contribution of such factors and the biopsychosocial mechanisms that link them to health. This volume provides the empirical evidence for the research agenda provided in the separate report of the Panel on Race, Ethnicity, and Health in Later Life.
The Politics of Race and Ethnicity in the United States
Author | : Sherrow O. Pinder |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2010-04-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230106692 |
The purpose of this book is to examine and analyze Americanization, De-Americanization, and racialized ethnic groups in America and consider the questions: who is an American? And what constitutes American identity and culture?
Race and Ethnicity in America
Author | : John Iceland |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2017-02-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520286928 |
"This book examines patterns and trends in racial inequality over the past several decades. Iceland finds that color lines have softened over time, as there has been some narrowing of differences across many indicators for most groups over the past sixty years. Asian Americans in particular have reached socioeconomic parity with white Americans. Nevertheless, deep-seated inequalities in income, poverty, unemployment, and health remain, especially among blacks, and, to a lesser extent, Hispanics. The causes for disadvantage for the groups vary, ranging from a legacy of racism, current discrimination, human capital deficits, the unfolding process of immigrant incorporation, and cultural responses to disadvantage."--Provided by publisher.
Hispanics/Latinos in the United States
Author | : Jorge J. E. Gracia |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780415926201 |
This collection of cutting-edge essays on the Hispanic/Latino population in the U.S. makes a major contribution to Philosophy, Ethnic Studies and Latin American studies.
Constraint of Race
Author | : Linda Faye Williams |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780271046723 |
Inequality and American Democracy
Author | : Lawrence R. Jacobs |
Publisher | : Russell Sage Foundation |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2005-08-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1610443047 |
In the twentieth century, the United States ended some of its most flagrant inequalities. The "rights revolution" ended statutory prohibitions against women's suffrage and opened the doors of voting booths to African Americans. Yet a more insidious form of inequality has emerged since the 1970s—economic inequality—which appears to have stalled and, in some arenas, reversed progress toward realizing American ideals of democracy. In Inequality and American Democracy, editors Lawrence Jacobs and Theda Skocpol headline a distinguished group of political scientists in assessing whether rising economic inequality now threatens hard-won victories in the long struggle to achieve political equality in the United States. Inequality and American Democracy addresses disparities at all levels of the political and policy-making process. Kay Lehman Scholzman, Benjamin Page, Sidney Verba, and Morris Fiorina demonstrate that political participation is highly unequal and strongly related to social class. They show that while economic inequality and the decreasing reliance on volunteers in political campaigns serve to diminish their voice, middle class and working Americans lag behind the rich even in protest activity, long considered the political weapon of the disadvantaged. Larry Bartels, Hugh Heclo, Rodney Hero, and Lawrence Jacobs marshal evidence that the U.S. political system may be disproportionately responsive to the opinions of wealthy constituents and business. They argue that the rapid growth of interest groups and the increasingly strict party-line voting in Congress imperils efforts at enacting policies that are responsive to the preferences of broad publics and to their interests in legislation that extends economic and social opportunity. Jacob Hacker, Suzanne Mettler, and Dianne Pinderhughes demonstrate the feedbacks of government policy on political participation and inequality. In short supply today are inclusive public policies like the G.I. Bill, Social Security legislation, the War on Poverty, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that changed the American political climate, mobilized interest groups, and altered the prospect for initiatives to stem inequality in the last fifty years. Inequality and American Democracy tackles the complex relationships between economic, social, and political inequality with authoritative insight, showcases a new generation of critical studies of American democracy, and highlights an issue of growing concern for the future of our democratic society.
Two Cultures of Rights
Author | : Manfred Berg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2002-03-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521792665 |
Papers of a conference held in Washington, D.C. in June 1997 and sponsored by the German Historical Institute.
Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Other Social Characteristics as Factors in Health and Health Care Disparities
Author | : Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2020-09-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 183982798X |
This volume investigates race, ethnicity and gender as factors in health and health care.
Communities in Action
Author | : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 583 |
Release | : 2017-04-27 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309452961 |
In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.