SOCI 3820 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Racialization
8 Dec 2014
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Race" matters: racialization and egalitarian discourses involving aboriginal people in the. The article examines how race and racialization operate in health care while specifically looking at how it affects the aboriginal population of urban areas in canada. Aboriginal people experience high mortality and morbidity rates, more poverty, have low life expectancy, and low employment rates. All these barriers prevent access to adequate health care. The authors conduct an ethnographic study to analyze factors that affect the health care of aboriginal people. They argue that common discourses such as policies implemented by socio-political contexts shape our meaning and experiences and thus limit our exposure to knowledge. They analyze how race and racialization operate in health care settings. They also examine the perceptions of aboriginal people on racialized images such as. The drunken indian" that are constantly portrayed of aboriginal people and culture. These public discourses assume and stereotype that all aboriginal people have low socioeconomic status and education, and are alcoholics.
