Mapping "Race" : : Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research / / ed. by Laura E. Gómez, Nancy López.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Craddock Lee, Simon J.,; Garcia, John A.,; Geronimus, Arline T.,; Graves, Joseph L.,; Gómez, Laura E.,; Helms, Janet E.,; Iwamoto, Derek Kenji,; Kahn, Jonathan,; Kaufman, Jay S.,; Kindaichi, Mai M.,; López, Nancy,; Mereish, Ethan H.,; Miller, Matthew,; Sanchez, Gabriel R.,; Saperstein, Aliya,; Valdez, R. Burciaga,; Ybarra, Vickie D.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Garcia, John A.; Geronimus, Arline T.; Gómez, Laura E.; Helms, Janet E.; Iwamoto, Derek Kenji.; Jr., Joseph L. Graves.; Kahn, Jonathan.; Kaufman, Jay S.; Kindaichi, Mai M.; Lee, Simon J. Craddock.; López, Nancy.; Mereish, Ethan H.; Miller, Matthew.; Saperstein, Aliya.; Sánchez, Gabriel R.; Valdez, R. Burciaga.; Ybarra, Vickie D.
• HerausgeberIn: Gómez, Laura E.,; López, Nancy,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 p.) :; 6 figures, 8 tables

Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel social construction, this has profound methodological implications for the sciences and social sciences. Race must inform how we design large-scale data...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Figures and Tables
• Foreword
• Preface
• Chapter 1. Introduction: Taking the Social Construction of Race Seriously in Health Disparities Research
• Part I.Charting the Problem
• Chapter 2. The Politics of Framing Health Disparities: Markets and Justice
• Chapter 3. Looking at the World through "Race"-Colored Glasses: The Fallacy of Ascertainment Bias in Biomedical Research and Practice
• Chapter 4. Ethical Dilemmas in Statistical Practice: The Problem of Race in Biomedicine
• Chapter 5. A Holistic Alternative to Current Survey Research Approaches to Race
• Part II. Navigating Diverse Empirical Settings
• Chapter 6. Organizational Practice and Social Constraints: Problems of Racial Identity Data Collection in Cancer Care and Research
• Chapter 7 Lessons from Political Science: Health Status and Improving How We Study Race
• Chapter 8. Advancing Asian American Mental Health Research by Enhancing Racial Identity Measures
• Part III. Surveying Solutions
• Chapter 9. Representing the Multidimensionality of Race in Survey Research
• Chapter 10. How Racial-Group Comparisons Create Misinformation in Depression Research: Using Racial Identity Theory to Conceptualize Health Disparities
• Chapter 11. Jedi Public Health: Leveraging Contingencies of Social Identity to Grasp and Eliminate Racial Health Inequality
• Chapter 12. Contextualizing Lived Race-Gender and the Racialized-Gendered Social Determinants of Health
• Notes on Contributors
• Index