Racism: The Impact on Health

Study Finds High Rates of Illness Among Washington DC Black Women

In the UK, Gypsies and Travellers experience racism, discrimination and inequality, so I was happy there were no further jokes about them in the latest season of Top Gear.

Finding a Scapegoat When Epidemics Strike: from Jews and the Black Death to ( Read more... )

Scientist - Griffin hijacked my work to make race claim about 'British aborigines', Times Online, 23 October 2009 ( Read more... )

I'm watching a doco right now called Ten Pound Poms, about immigration from Britain to Australia. After World War II, Australia needed workers, and accepted large numbers of refugees and immigrants; but, with the White Australia Policy in full swing, European migrants were preferred, and in the case of British subjects, encouraged by subsidised ( Read more... )

Read something which shed light on a bunch of stuff. It's the chapter "From race cognizance to racism cognizance: dilemmas in antiracist activism in California", by Ellen Kaye Scott, from the book Feminism and Antiracism: International Struggles for Justice (edited by France Winddance Twine and Kathleen M. Blee. NYU Press, New York, 2001 ( Read more... )

... here's a news clipping from 1995 which I found floating around in my filing. It describes one of various anti-French incidents in Australia - the response of thugs to the controversay over nuclear testing at Muroroa atoll. (I also recall some idiot on the radio joked about blowing up a French bicycle race contestant, to the dismay of their on- ( Read more... )

I wanted to share with you a moment of revelatory hair-raisingness I experienced while reading Understanding White PrivilegeOne of the points Frances Kendall makes, and which I think is really crucial to understanding contemporary racism, is the issue of who gets to be at the centre. Who's natural, normal, regular, average, typical? Who's the ( Read more... )

Today I read the first chapter and some random bits of Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race by Frances E. Kendall. I am at once compelled and soothed by her openness, honesty, experience, and compassion - for White people as well as Black. I think I'm going to learn a lot from this book ( Read more... )

From nostalgia_lj: race and schizophrenia in the uk.

Similarly, the impact of racism on mental and physical health: How racism hurts -- literally.

Medical care and racism: this is your war on drugs: studies reveal different treatment, including different medications, given in US ERs based on race and ethnicity.

Nurturing prejudice a matter of nature: "A ( Read more... )

During TRU I described myself as having "minimal contact with POC". I still think that's true, but it's qualified by two things: one, I have minimal contact with everyone; if you add up the people I normally see face to face each week, not including Jon, a quarter of them are Asian. And two, the casual contact I have with other human beings, on ( Read more... )

The Baxter Detention Centre closed on Monday. "It stopped overt protest but it didn't stop the crippling psychological damage of detention," [researcher] Dr Steel said. "In terms of the wellbeing of detainees, they couldn't see out, they could only see up."

A Sydney pub was busted for refusing entry to islanders (such as Samoans and Maori) and ( Read more... )