Mapping "Race": Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research

Contents

v List of Figures and Tables vii Foreword ix R. Burciaga Valdez Preface xiii Chapter 1 Introduction: Taking the Social Construction of Race Seriously in Health Disparities Research 1 Laura E. Gómez Part I Charting the Problem 23 Chapter 2 The Politics of Framing Health Disparities: Markets and Justice 25 Jonathan Kahn Chapter 3 Looking at the World through “Race”-Colored Glasses: The Fallacy of Ascertainment Bias in Biomedical Research and Practice 39 Joseph L. Graves Jr. Chapter 4 Ethical Dilemmas in Statistical Practice: The Problem of Race in Biomedicine 53 Jay S. Kaufman Chapter 5 A Holistic Alternative to Current Survey Research Approaches to Race 67 John A. Garcia Part II Navigating Diverse Empirical Settings 85 Chapter 6 Organizational Practice and Social Constraints: Problems of Racial Identity Data Collection in Cancer Care and Research 87 Simon J. Craddock Lee Contents vi Contents Chapter 7 Lessons from Political Science: Health Status and Improving How We Study Race 104 Gabriel R. Sanchez and Vickie D. Ybarra Chapter 8 Advancing Asian American Mental Health Research by Enhancing Racial Identity Measures 117 Derek Kenji Iwamoto, Mai M. Kindaichi, and Matthew Miller Part III Surveying Solutions 131 Chapter 9 Representing the Multidimensionality of Race in Survey Research 133 Aliya Saperstein Chapter 10 How Racial-Group Comparisons Create Misinformation in Depression Research: Using Racial Identity Theory to Conceptualize Health Disparities 146 Janet E. Helms and Ethan H. Mereish Chapter 11 Jedi Public Health: Leveraging Contingencies of Social Identity to Grasp and Eliminate Racial Health Inequality 163 Arline T. Geronimus Chapter 12 Contextualizing Lived Race-Gender and the RacializedGendered Social Determinants of Health 179 Nancy López Notes on Contributors 213 Index 217 ...