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HSCI 855 Week 5: Anti-racism, decolonization and health promotion
- Having a sound understanding of key concepts is an essential first step to work towards an antiracist and decolonial health promotion practice.
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- At the individual level, “health promoters in all spheres must develop a deep race consciousness that acknowledges the centrality of race and racism in everyday life.”
a. "What disciplinary traditions do you draw on, and have you engaged with the critiques from critical race scholars in those disciplines?"
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c. "Does this go beyond simply stating that race matters to underscoring how racism and racialization function to make race matter?"
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- Recognize that "health promotion must contribute to 2 distinct but complementary agendas."
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c. "Transform policy, government, tools, so they are no longer tools to reproduce racial inequities but opportunities to envision and produce racially equitable societies"
d. Acknowledge that grassroots approaches to health promotion stem from Indigenous public health practices
i. "Centre indigenous wisdom and ways of knowing and the experiences, traditions and strengths of racialized groups"
- Become familiar with the different frameworks that exist for addressing racism and colonialism in health promotion.
a. Applied decolonial framework for health promotion (Chandanabhumma & Narasimhan, 2019)
b. Actions to eliminate racial inequity (Came & Griffith, 2018)
c. 5 key elements of anti-racism praxis (Kendi, 2019)
- Significant challenges exist to applying anti-racist decolonial frameworks to health promotion.
a. "A focus on teaching ‘correct’ or evidence-based knowledge may reify paternalistic dynamics and erode the ability for individuals being served to discern what is appropriate for their health"
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