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Week 5 Mind Map: Anti-Racism and Health Promotion - Coggle Diagram
Week 5 Mind Map: Anti-Racism and Health Promotion
The main tools available for anti-racism praxis represent a diverse array of approaches through varying perspectives that offer a strong, multi-facted strategy toward implementing social change when used in conjunction.
3.1 Structural power analysis involves institutional or organizational lens to examine privilige and how it is distributed within
3.2 Systems change theory attempts to make connections between external factors and institutional/organizational components
3.3 Education is key - offers new ways of thinking, opportunity for decolonization, translates thinking to action
3.3.1 can't hide from the fact that change needs to start at individual level
3.3.1.1 Neoliberal element
3.4 Progress needs to constantly be evaluated - change doesn't happen without accountability
3.4.1 exactly like program evaluation
3.4.2 health impact assessment
3.5 Reflexivity allows exploration and rejection of preconceived notions/bias
3.5.1 Again comes back to individual
The next generation of public health professionals have the opportunity to integrate anti-racism praxis into the fabric of the field,
5.1 Students can be the ones to immerse themselves into and develop the anti-racism praxis tools in theory so that they can be effectively applied to practice
5.1.1 Important to go beyond the classroom, too - can't just be assignments and tests - students need to be comfortable in taking aciton
5.1.3 Many newly emerging career opportunities
5.1.2 Anti-racism can be looked at through an interdisciplinary lens - educational institutions are great place to do this
5.2 Relationships are key to success of anti-racism organizing - if students bare this in mind early on in their careers, change will be much more likely in the long-term
Indigenous perspectives can be drawn on to inform anti-racism praxis and organizing.
4.1 Anti-racism praxis builds on traditional Indigenous wisdom - the idea of self-determination is central
4.1.1 empowerment is key
4.1.2 Important not to confine thinking to racism directed at a specific group - societal problem that impacts multiple subgroups
4.2 The In-Plain Sight report regarding Indigenous-specific racism in BC healthcare system offers a wide array of specific recommendations through which we could see anti-racism praxis in action
The concept of racism can be broken down into several component aspects that establish the magnitude of its impact on health disparities and societal dynamics as a whole.
1.1 Racism can be used as both an analytical tool and a frame to examine underlying societal conditions and how different population groups are impacted
1.1.1 Unjust societal conditions created by policies + practices
1.1.2 Racism manifests in health disparities
1.1.3 Power system
1.2 Focusing on racism as anything less than a system places undue emphasis on individual characteristics rather than structures, practices & norms
1.2.1 Not just discriminatory attitudes/behaviour
1.2.2 Structural racism
1.2.2.1 Racial inferiority entrenched in ideologies
1.2.2.2 Differential resource allocation mutually reinforced by different societal sectors
Anti-racism organizing is the most critical & far-reaching tool available to enact meaningful change when it comes to racial health disparities.
2.1 Implementing strategies to address racism/racialization
2.1.1 rejecting racist ideologies/practices at the individual level
2.1.2 advocating for institutional and cultural change
2.2 Important to look at at health equity in realistically in relation to racism - social justice doesn't convince all
2.2.1 spirituality can be leveraged
2.2.2 Targeted interventions necessary
2.3 Interventions focused on healing, organizing and empowering
2.3.1 Based on key ideas that racism is main form of oppression in society as well as biggest obstacle to social equity