Historical Factors for Medical Mistrust
This "research" intentionally infected African American men with syphilis, denied treatment even after one was discovered, and completely lack scientific merit.
What is the Tuskegee Study?
This practice by private banks and sanctioned by the federal government prevented African Americans, and other minorities, from purchasing homes in certain communities.
What is redlining?
These people, in what is now known as Syracuse, developed one of the oldest participatory democracies that inlfuenced our current government.
Who are the Haudenosaunee?
Awareness of one’s racial position and how racial stratification occurs
What is race conciousness?
Rates for this outcome are more than three times higher for black women as compared to white women (55.9 vs. 18.1 per 100,000).
What is a pregnancy-related death?
This "theory" advocated that certain groups of people were superior because of differences in their genetic make up and that this should determine who is allowed to prosper, procreate, and even live. It was also used as a justification for slavery in the United States.
What is eugenics?
This law provided financial support to former soldiers to attend college for free, take out low interest loand to start a business, and receive favorable terms for mortgages to buy a house, but excluded African Americans.
Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944
This is a type of cultivation of food based on a larger eco-system perspective that involves a range of sustainable farming and foraging activities. Efforts in this space today often draw on historical indigenous wisdom.
What are food forests?
Racism is embedded in society’s social fabric
What is the ordinariness of racism?
This variable acts as a "middle man" between the independent and dependent variables.
What is a mediator variable?
This medical specialty has it roots in surgeries performed, without consent and without anestesia, on enslaved women
What is gynocology?
This term refers to the physiological toll that high effort coping causes as result of chronic exposure to racism and discrimination.
What is John Henryism?
The forced relocation of indigenous tribes to the west of the Mississippi and also to reservations.
What was the Great Removal?
Understand that racial stratification is an essential contributor to societal problems
Primacy of Racialization?
This study of British civil servants demonstrated that SES gradient is important. It is not just about being at the top or bottom, it is about relative position on a continuum.
What is the Whitehall Study (or Studies)?
In 1927, the Supreme Court (Buck. Bell) upheld a lower court decision that said states had a right to perform this procedure against an individual's will.
What is forced Sterilization?
In 2023, rates for this was 6.5% for whites, 9.7% for blacks, 12.8% for NHPI, 17.9% for Hispanics, and 18.7% for AIAN
What is uninsured? (rate of people without health insurance)
The Garrison dam in North Dakota is an example of one of many dams built in the west that drastically changes native people's lifestyles and led to a drastic increase in this disease.
What is diabetes?
Research in practice
What is Praxis?
This this, outside variable is not directly cause by of the effect of an independent or dependent variable, but it modulates the relationship between the two.
What is a moderator variable?
In 1910, this document led to the standardization of medical education while simultaneously leading to the closing of many medical schools for African Americans.
What is the Flexner Report?
This proposed legislation, which has been introduced over two dozen times over more than two decades, would provide a path to legal residency and eventual citizenship for individuals who entered the U.S. as undocumented children.
What is the Dream Act?
It is estimated that in 2021, the death rate due to this crisis was nearly twice as high for indigenous people as compared to the national average (38.7 vs 20.1 per 100,000).
What is the opiod crisis?
Overlap and reinforcement of the systems of stratification and how they experienced by individuals in their multiple, co‐occurring identities.
What is Intersectionality?
A form of racism that represents prejudice and privledge embeded in systems and institutions and involve actors who may or may not act with racist intent
What is systematic or institutionalized racism?