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An eminent social analyst examines the way racism works-and how it can be overcome.Racism: It is social, not "natural"; it is general, not "personal"; and it is tragically effective. In a remarkable meditation on a subject at the troubled center of American life, Albert Memmi investigates racism as social pathology-a cultural disease that prevails because it allows one segment of society to empower itself at the expense of another. By turns historical, sociological, and autobiographical, Racism moves beyond individual prejudice and taste to engage the broader questions of collective behavior a

Explores the transition of racist practices in the Caribbean from the overt racism of the earlier stages of settlement to the more indirect & subtle discrimination persistent today. It is argued that the diversity of cultures in the Caribbean is conducive to social differentiation based on race & color. From the genocide of the Amerindians to the enslavement of Africans to indentured servitude, the long history of Caribbean racism is discussed in the context of the still prevalent color-class system. The new racism is one based on custom, cliqueism, & nepotism. The racist/antiracist struggle is discussed through several contemporary Caribbean examples: Guyana, Trinidad, Surinam, Haiti, Belize, Martinique, Guadeloupe, & French Guyana, as well as the English-speaking Caribbean & Cuba. 35 References. M. Greenberg

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Foreword: An APHA Perspective -- Foreword: The Long Trajectory -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- I. IS RACISM A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE? -- 2 Overcoming the Impact of Racism on the Health of Communities: What We Have Learned and What We Have Not -- Appendix 2A: Historical Documents -- 3 "We Just Haven't Put Our Minds to It": An Interview With David Williams Describing the Trajectory of His Career Studying Racism -- 4 A Call for Leadership in Tackling Systemic and Structural Racism in the Academy -- A Note From the Battlefield -- II. HOW DOES RACISM AFFECT HEALTH? -- 5 Black-White Health Inequalities by Intentional Design: The Lasting Health Impact of Racial Residential Segregation -- 6 Structural Racism in Policing and Mass Incarceration: A Driver of Health Disparities in Black and Latino/Latina Communities -- 7 Critical Race Theory, Racial Stratification in Education, and Public Health -- INTERPERSONAL- AND INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL MECHANISMS -- 8 John Henryism, Structural Racism, and Cardiovascular Health Risks in Black Americans -- 9 The Burden of Cultural Racism: Vigilance and Racial Health Inequities -- 10 Racism Across the Life Course -- ACTION AND ALLEGORIES -- 11 Action and Allegories -- III. WHAT DO WE DO? -- A Note From the Battlefield -- 12 Epidemiology-Why Epidemiologists Must Reckon With Racism -- 13 Scientific Literacy: An Opportunity for Meaningful Engagement of Communities of Color in Public Health Research -- 14 Health Care: Antiracism Organizing for Culture and Institutional Change in Cancer Care -- Appendix 14A: HEET Evaluation Survey -- Appendix 14B: HEET Observation Tool -- Appendix 14C: HEET Debriefing Questions for Facilitators and Observers -- 15 Organizing-What Do White People Need to Know to Be Effective Antiracism Allies Within Public Health?.

Racism is a complex issue that still affects many in the diverse United States and world. This book helps readers understand this problem from the roots of racial identities to what is being done today to stand up to racism and help people affected by it. Vibrant photographs, diagrams, and a timeline of the U.S. civil rights movement enhance the approachable text. This book helps students understand the progress that's been made to fight racism. They will analyze the steps that still need to be taken. Equipped with this knowledge, readers will feel inspired and empowered to build more compassionate and accepting communities.

Explores the development of postwar state racism in Western Europe & the continuation of these policies through immigration controls & economic marginalization of minority communities. The policies of political parties & trade unions served to exclude immigrants, compelled them to accept lower wages, & as a result raised the status of the "native" race. The growing appeal of far-right parties is traced to the trade unions' failure to gain political power by accepting migrants into the union movement. Working-class white Europeans, consequently, have turned to the Right for answers to their problems. It is argued that antiracists in Europe must adopt the cause of refugee rights while still fighting for full democratic rights for settlers by building an organization from the bottom up rather that from the top down. 57 References. M. Greenberg

Abstract
This article surveys several problems related to the links between slavery and racism, and the frequency of both racism without slavery and slavery without racism. Slavery clearly existed prior to the emergence of racism, scientific or otherwis, and unlike in recent centuries, the enslaved were not always peoples of different color. The linking of race and slavery, with race as the defining characteristic of the enslaved, came mainly after the settlement of the Americas with the transatlantic slave trade from Africa. Indeed, the debate continues on whether racism led to slavery (as argued for colonial America) or whether slavery gave rise to a coherent racism to justify enslavement of others. Racism may be used to justify the harsh treatment of others, or it may simply reflect mainly a belief that some differences among groups exist and race provides the interpretation of why such differences exist. Presumably then, awareness of perceived or argued for racial differences could exist without the imposition of differential treatments, despite the role racial beliefs might play in social organization.