Miseducation and Racism
Comment And Opinion
Community Health Centers in US Inner Cities: Additional Commentary
By Aneez Esmail, University of Manchester
Blacks and the 2008 Elections: A Preliminary Analysis
By David A. Bositis, The Joint Center for Political and Economic Activities
Miseducation and Racism
by Marika Sherwood, c0-founder of the Black and Asian Studies Association (BASA)
Creating a Safe Learning Space for the Discussion of Multicultural Issues in the Classroom by Katherine M. Helm, Lewis University
Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World: A Review Journal
Comment and Opinion
Community Health Centers in US Inner Cities: From Cultural Competency to Community Competency Additional Commentary
Aneez Esmail, Professor of General Practice, University of Manchester
It would seem strange that the first issue of a journal devoted to the study of issues around ethnicity and race should give prominence to an article which challenges the idea of multiculturalism and cultural diversity in responding to the challenges of delivering healthcare. However, because of the relationship between race and inequality it is right that consideration is given to questioning the effectiveness of one of the main policy responses to health inequalities and the way that they impact on different racial and ethnic groups. Multiculturalism as a policy response to racism has certainly been the dominant ideology used by the Government and its public institutions to tackle the significant racial and ethnic disparities that were highlighted in Britain in the early 1980s. and which have persisted to this day. The policy is based on a misguided assumption that targeting resources which focus on ethnicity and culture can mitigate the effects of racism which as Sivanandan has pointed out has been ‘woven, over centuries of colonialism and slavery, into the structures of society and into the instruments and institutions of government, local and central’. It was only with the publication of
Community Health Centers in US Inner Cities: Additional Commentary
By Aneez Esmail, University of Manchester
Blacks and the 2008 Elections: A Preliminary Analysis
By David A. Bositis, The Joint Center for Political and Economic Activities
Miseducation and Racism
by Marika Sherwood, c0-founder of the Black and Asian Studies Association (BASA)
Creating a Safe Learning Space for the Discussion of Multicultural Issues in the Classroom by Katherine M. Helm, Lewis University
Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World: A Review Journal
Comment and Opinion
Community Health Centers in US Inner Cities: From Cultural Competency to Community Competency Additional Commentary
Aneez Esmail, Professor of General Practice, University of Manchester
It would seem strange that the first issue of a journal devoted to the study of issues around ethnicity and race should give prominence to an article which challenges the idea of multiculturalism and cultural diversity in responding to the challenges of delivering healthcare. However, because of the relationship between race and inequality it is right that consideration is given to questioning the effectiveness of one of the main policy responses to health inequalities and the way that they impact on different racial and ethnic groups. Multiculturalism as a policy response to racism has certainly been the dominant ideology used by the Government and its public institutions to tackle the significant racial and ethnic disparities that were highlighted in Britain in the early 1980s. and which have persisted to this day. The policy is based on a misguided assumption that targeting resources which focus on ethnicity and culture can mitigate the effects of racism which as Sivanandan has pointed out has been ‘woven, over centuries of colonialism and slavery, into the structures of society and into the instruments and institutions of government, local and central’. It was only with the publication of