Mapping 'Race' Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research

Informationen zum Autor LAURA E. GoMEZ is a professor of law! sociology! and Chicano studies at the University of California at Los Angeles. She is the author of "Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race."NANCY LoPEZ is an associate professor of sociology at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of "Hopeful Girls! Troubled Boys: Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Education." Klappentext Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional! multilevel social construction! this has profound methodological implications for the sciences and social sciences. This collection argues for the recognition of those implications for research and suggests ways in which they may be integrated into future scientific endeavours.

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• Assisted by: Laura E. Gómez (Editor), Nancy López (Editor), Laura E. Gomez (Editor), Nancy Lopez (Editor)
• Authors: Laura E. Gomez, Laura E. Lopez Gomez
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 12.08.2013
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General
• EAN: 9780813561370
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-6137-0
• Pages: 246
• Series: Critical Issues in Health and; Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Subjects: MEDICAL / General