Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Infant Mortality, Residential Segregation In The United States, Intersectionality
10 May 2016
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Traditionally and generally, males have greater access to power and resources than females. Gender paradox men die quicker but women are sicker. Are discernable patterns in how health is distributed according to (what we have come to understand as) race or ethnicity. But without reflecting on what these mean and reflect, we run the risk of naturalizing social differences and reproducing racist assumptions. If we know for more violate crimes in a neighbourhood, mostly african-americans, does this mean that they are violent or is it the way that society is set up that forces african. A social and political construct that is used to distinguish between and rank different groups of people on the basis of physical characteristics (such as skin colour) Tends to be thought of as individual determined by biology and genes. An enduring social category that captures differential access to power and resources in society. Race as a way of categorizing human difference.
