Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-12-18Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:38:15Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 sarzedas_lpm_me_assis.pdf: 946351 bytes, checksum: 6d67a25b01ffeb8750957b1d2b880fed (MD5) / Para se estudar as relações raciais no Brasil é imprescindível reconhecer a construção social e histórica das etnias que formaram, e formam, a nação brasileira. Ter por objetivo conhecer a visão que a escola, a família, as crianças e a própria criança negra tem em ser negra é adentrar um espaço constituído numa sociedade na qual os dizeres sobre o negro são permeados por ideologias e saberes desprovidos de uma visão histórica do problema. Atualmente, a implantação das Ações Afirmativas no Brasil despertou discussões ao redor da polêmica de se reconhecer, ou não, a condição desigual a que se vê submetido o negro brasileiro. A escola, como um espaço da vida cotidiana, está permeada por conceitos e pré-conceitos, podendo tornar-se um espaço de manutenção do racismo. Tendo por orientação teórica a Psicologia Sócio-Histórica, essa pesquisa teve por objetivo conhecer a visão que se tem da criança negra no espaço escolar. Foram realizadas observações livres registradas em um diário de campo, segundo uma metodologia etnográfica, tendo por foco uma turma de 1ª. série do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola pública da Cidade de Londrina, estado do Paraná. A pesquisa compreendeu, também, um levantamento das principais leis que respaldam o anti-racismo no Brasil tendo por foco a educação. O que se pôde verificar, a partir das observações livres, foi um discurso que culpabiliza o negro por sua condição, corroborando a idéia de mito da democracia racial, assim como a busca por atingir um ideal estético branco devido ao mesmo estar associado a um ideal de caráter e beleza... / To study the racial relations in Brazil is indispensable to recognize the social and historical from the ethnical constructions that were formed, and still are forming, the brazilian nation. To have as objective to know the opinion that the school, the family, the children and the afrodescending child have about being a afro-descending person is to get inside of a space constituted in a society where the words about the subject “being black” are full of ideologies and speechs without a historical vision of the problem. At present, the implementation of affirmative actions in Brazil brought discussions around the polemical subject about to recognize or not the disproportional condition that seems a afrodescending person is submitted in Brazil. The school, as a space of the routine life, is surrounded by conceptions and preconceptions, becoming this way possible the maintenance of the racism. Having as theoretical orientation the social-historical psychology, this research has as objective to know the vision that people have about the afro-brazilian infant at the school place. There were made free recorded observations in some sort of a field’s diary, following an ethnographic methodology, having as focus a 1st grade’s group of the public school’s fundamental education of Londrina, a city that belong to the state of Paraná. The research agglomerates a selection of the main laws that uphold the anti-racism in Brazil, having as focus the education. What could be verified from the free observations was a speech that blames the afro-descending person by his condition, corroborating the idea of the racial democracy myth, such as the seek to reach a white esthetic ideal due to the fact that this last one is associated to a character and beauty ideal, despite of the most recent... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Orientador: Elisabeth da Silva Gelli / Banca: Marilene Proença Rebello de Souza / Banca: João Batista Martins / Resumo: Para se estudar as relações raciais no Brasil é imprescindível reconhecer a construção social e histórica das etnias que formaram, e formam, a nação brasileira. Ter por objetivo conhecer a visão que a escola, a família, as crianças e a própria criança negra tem em ser negra é adentrar um espaço constituído numa sociedade na qual os dizeres sobre o negro são permeados por ideologias e saberes desprovidos de uma visão histórica do problema. Atualmente, a implantação das Ações Afirmativas no Brasil despertou discussões ao redor da polêmica de se reconhecer, ou não, a condição desigual a que se vê submetido o negro brasileiro. A escola, como um espaço da vida cotidiana, está permeada por conceitos e pré-conceitos, podendo tornar-se um espaço de manutenção do racismo. Tendo por orientação teórica a Psicologia Sócio-Histórica, essa pesquisa teve por objetivo conhecer a visão que se tem da criança negra no espaço escolar. Foram realizadas observações livres registradas em um diário de campo, segundo uma metodologia etnográfica, tendo por foco uma turma de 1ª. série do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola pública da Cidade de Londrina, estado do Paraná. A pesquisa compreendeu, também, um levantamento das principais leis que respaldam o anti-racismo no Brasil tendo por foco a educação. O que se pôde verificar, a partir das observações livres, foi um discurso que culpabiliza o negro por sua condição, corroborando a idéia de mito da democracia racial, assim como a busca por atingir um ideal estético branco devido ao mesmo estar associado a um ideal de caráter e beleza... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: To study the racial relations in Brazil is indispensable to recognize the social and historical from the ethnical constructions that were formed, and still are forming, the brazilian nation. To have as objective to know the opinion that the school, the family, the children and the afrodescending child have about being a afro-descending person is to get inside of a space constituted in a society where the words about the subject "being black" are full of ideologies and speechs without a historical vision of the problem. At present, the implementation of affirmative actions in Brazil brought discussions around the polemical subject about to recognize or not the disproportional condition that seems a afrodescending person is submitted in Brazil. The school, as a space of the routine life, is surrounded by conceptions and preconceptions, becoming this way possible the maintenance of the racism. Having as theoretical orientation the social-historical psychology, this research has as objective to know the vision that people have about the afro-brazilian infant at the school place. There were made free recorded observations in some sort of a field's diary, following an ethnographic methodology, having as focus a 1st grade's group of the public school's fundamental education of Londrina, a city that belong to the state of Paraná. The research agglomerates a selection of the main laws that uphold the anti-racism in Brazil, having as focus the education. What could be verified from the free observations was a speech that blames the afro-descending person by his condition, corroborating the idea of the racial democracy myth, such as the seek to reach a white esthetic ideal due to the fact that this last one is associated to a character and beauty ideal, despite of the most recent... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Racism, defined as the creation or maintenance of a racial hierarchy supported through institutional power, is a pervasive issue in the United States that affects educational institutions across the country in various ways, such as through unequal educational access, school funding, hiring practices, and school discipline. Rather than directly challenging and working toward combating injustices that emerge in institutions, most school leaders disregard race-based educational inequities by providing explanations for racist actions and patterns that occur. There is often a hesitancy to engage in discussions about race and racism in predominantly White spaces because it feels “uncomfortable” and can lead to conflict. This discomfort encourages colorblind ideology, resulting in a lack of dialogue that enables racial hierarchies to thrive. Thus, some members of society benefit from the system, while others are exploited. In this qualitative case study, I explore how students of color who attend an affluent, predominantly White, suburban, public middle school experience a course designed to discuss issues of race and racism. Although anti-bias education is commonly thought to be beneficial for schools located in urban areas, this dominant narrative disregards the needs of predominantly White suburban school communities that have traditionally ignored issues of race and racism, yet due to shifts in immigration patterns, are becoming more diverse. This study explores the challenges students of color face when discussing issues of race and racism in predominantly White, suburban school settings. The culture of silence that permeates educational institutions maintains racial hierarchies and disadvantages students of color who are often “subjected to institutionalized conditions that contradict their interests and their humanity.” Information gleaned from this study may be used to improve upon existing racial literacy courses in predominantly White spaces to ensure that all students feel safe and included in the curriculum.

Race-based medicine is the belief that people of different races have different biological characteristics that affect the diseases they are prone to, and the types of treatments and procedures that should be used. This belief is reflected in medical education, clinical practice, and research. Race-based medicine was born from slavery. Notions of biological difference between races were used to justify slavery, and the structural racism that was a product of the slavery era gave rise to race-based medicine. Despite the common belief that medicine is evidence-based and objective, science and medicine reflect society, and thus are also flawed and biased. Medicine and medical education cannot be separated from the views of the dominant culture. The belief of today dictates the lens through which physicians and researchers look at patients, procedures, and treatments. Despite more and more evidence that there is no biological basis to our social construction of race, race-based medicine is still being taught in medical schools. Medical vignettes and the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) display questions that encourage the normalcy of whiteness, reinforce stereotypes, and emphasize that diseases are race-specific. Race-based medicine is dangerous; not only is the concept unscientific and based in, the belief is also a source of trauma for minority students and residents. How does one cope with the daily assault of information that your race is a risk factor for many diseases, a justification for treating you differently, or that your fellow physicians are being trained to believe that the amount of melanin in your skin is enough information upon which to base assumptions? Instead of desperately searching for innate racial differences, society needs to change their focus to social determinants of health. We are chasing the rabbit hole of biological racial differences, but ignoring social determinants and structural racism, which distracts us from achieving health equity. / Urban Bioethics

By 2010, forty-six years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and two years after the election of the nation's first Black president, Barack Obama, the U.S. had seemingly become a post-racial society. However, in 2010, Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070 was under fire and challenged as racially discriminatory. While the bill was popular among white Arizonians, critics charged that SB1070 could facilitate the racial profiling of all Latinos in state law enforcement officers' efforts to check the legal status of those they suspect are undocumented. Analyzing 70 recordings from the Arizona house floor, press conferences, and television interviews during 2009-2012, I investigate how elected and public officials discuss their support for this contested legislation. Proponents of the bill largely used color-blind maneuvers in response to questions concerning racial profiling and Latinos, but simultaneously constructed racialized undocumented immigrants as criminals and economic burdens. Consequently, political supporters of SB 1070 engaged in a racial discourse evoking an implicit white injury ideology that positioned whites as injured by the presence of racialized immigrants, while all Latinos were discursively constructed as immigrants irrespective of their citizenship status, and therefore constructed as outside the (white injured) citizenry.

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[pt] As práticas do racismo se inserem nas estruturas sociais, perpassando e orientando as políticas migratórias, a gestão de fronteiras e os aparatos de controle estatais e internacionais. Populações em refúgio cada vez mais são enquadradas pelo aparato fronteiriço de segurança que barra sua travessia e deslocamento, ou que faz com que o direito destas seja colocado à mercê, a partir de um jogo estratégico e retórico dos Estados e atores internacionais. O estudo problematiza esses processos presentes no refúgio pela chave de inteligibilidade do racismo, a fim de compreender os nexos e suas fronteiras, externas e internas, de experiências que se atualizam na diferença do que veio de fora, no seio dos Estados-Nação, em diálogo transversal com o ordenamento internacional e suas consequências para a reintegração do refugiado. / [en] Racism practices are inserted in social structures, permeating and guiding migratory policies, border management, and state and international control apparatus. Refugee populations are increasingly framed by the border security apparatus that bars their crossing and displacement or that causes their right to be placed at the mercy of a strategic and rhetorical game of States and international actors. The study problematizes these processes present in the refuge by the key to the intelligibility of racism, to understand the nexus and its borders, external and internal, of experiences that are updated in the difference of who came from outside, inside the Nation-States, in cross-sectional dialogue with international system and its consequences for the reintegration of refugees.

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This systematic review examined literature spanning the last 10 years from Canada, the U.K., the U.S.A., Australia, and New Zealand. Findings highlight the significant gap in comparative literature examining (structural) racism as a determinant of South Asian healthcare access, utilization, and outcomes, and identifies areas of future research to address South Asian health equity concerns. / Background: Race, or specifically racism, has been well-established as a critical determinant of health, though current healthcare practices and policies in Western countries do not adequately address these issues. South Asians are the largest minority group in Canada, and they face disproportionate rates of chronic illnesses, mental health conditions, and barriers to care globally. However, their experiences in healthcare settings and the impact of race and racism on their health equity remain unexplored. This systematic review examined whether race affects healthcare access, utilization, and outcomes of South Asians compared to White-majority populations in Western countries. Methods: Embase, PsycInfo, Ageline, and CINAHL, were searched following PRISMA guidelines, as well as Google Scholar. Articles from 2013-2022 were included if they discussed racism, discrimination, or disparities/inequalities in South Asian physical and mental health, healthcare access, and utilization, outcomes compared to White populations in Canada, the U.K., the U.S.A., Australia, and New Zealand. The Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT) was used to assess methodological quality. Data was synthesized narratively. Results: The review included 89 studies from Canada (n=19), the U.K. (n=51), the U.S.A. (n=17), and Australia (n=2), with most studies (n=76) utilizing cross-sectional or cohort designs and examining physical health outcomes (n=50). Study samples predominantly included Indians, Pakistanis, and Bangladeshis over other subgroups. Notably, there was no overall increase in comparative studies over the last decade; however, the U.K. observed an 85% increase compared to an 82% and 64% decrease in Canada and the U.S.A., respectively. The review also identified limited research on experiences within healthcare settings and mental health outcomes, sexual/reproductive health, and all health outcomes for children/youth. Few studies directly discussed the impacts of structural or organizational racism or discrimination on outcomes, though some commented on individual racism as well. Instead, studies relied on the social determinants of health as proxies for structural racism, such as education and income. Conclusion: This review highlights the significant lack of comparative research on the impact of structural, organizational, and individual racism on the healthcare access, utilization, and outcomes of South Asians compared to White-majority populations in Western countries. The review emphasizes the need for more primary, comparative research that quantifies and contextualizes South Asian experiences in obtaining healthcare services. Future research must employ rigorous and representative sampling methods, diverse study designs, and quantitative and qualitative measures that capture implicit, covert, and overt racism in healthcare among South Asians. Additionally, studies should measure factors such as religion, housing, language, and racialized institutional policies, in addition to the typically examined social determinants of health. Finally, this review highlights the need to collect and report disaggregated race and ethnicity health data with input from community leaders, and stratify these data by South Asian subgroups to avoid homogenization of distinct cultures and differential experiences in healthcare systems. Overall, acknowledging racism in healthcare and institutional policies is essential to effectively dismantle these issues and ensure health equity for South Asians. / Thesis / Master of Public Health (MPH)