Society has long idealized science as an indisputable vehicle of objective truth. This image has given scientists significant power, including the power to shape public opinion and even to affect the formulation of public policy. Throughout history, it cannot be said that science determines politics or that politics determined science, but often the two have been intertwined (Barkan, 5). But wh...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the role of psychosocial stress in racial differences in birth outcomes. DESIGN Maternal health, sociodemographic factors, and 3 forms of stress (general stress, pregnancy stress, and perceived racism) were assessed prospectively in a sample of 51 African American and 73 non-Hispanic White pregnant women. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The outcomes of interest were birt...

This mixed-model study examined the relationship between urban adolescents' perceived support for challenging racism, sexism, and social injustice from peers, family, and community members and their critical consciousness development. These relationships were examined by relating participants' qualitative perceptions of support for challenging racism, sexism, and social injustice to quantitativ...

This thesis seeks to provide an insight into three phenomena: the condition of racism in Sweden, the complexity of identity, and the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in classroom settings. It also offers an analysis of how such phenomena combined in the development of a specific educational anti-racist website (www.swedkid.nu) for students and teachers in Swedish schools. ...

BACKGROUND The incidence of uterine leiomyomata (fibroids, myomas) is 2-3 times higher in black women than white women. Black women also report higher levels of racial discrimination. We evaluated the hypothesis that greater exposure to racism increases myoma risk in black women. METHODS Data were derived from the Black Women's Health Study, a prospective cohort study of US black women age 21...

Professor Tyrer’s editorial (2005) is welcome and long overdue. He highlights a serious inequality between the contributions of authors from the industrialised and non-industrialised world. What Professor Tyrer failed to discuss is a more deeply imbedded problem of the institutionalised racism that lies at the heart of the conceptual systems we use in psychiatry. This is, of course, an understa...

Fighting racism requires knowing what it is — not an easy task. Today the word “racism” has so many contradictory meanings that it takes on the aura of a myth and is, therefore, difficult to define. The following will attempt to define racist ideology, independently of any sociological considerations. The first difficulty arises from the fact that racism is a Schimpfwort: a term with pejorative...

Professor Tyrer’s editorial (2005) is welcome and long overdue. He highlights a serious inequality between the contributions of authors from the industrialised and non-industrialised world. What Professor Tyrer failed to discuss is a more deeply imbedded problem of the institutionalised racism that lies at the heart of the conceptual systems we use in psychiatry. This is, of course, an understa...

Racism and health: social representation of women and professionals about the color/race issue Sacramento AN, Nascimento ER Rev Esc Enferm USP 2011; 45(5):1139-46 www.ee.usp.br/reeusp/ Racism and health: social representation of women and professionals about the color/race issue* O R IG IN A L A R T IC L E RACISMO E SAÚDE: REPRESENTAÇÕES SOCIAIS DE MULHERES E PROFISSIONAIS SOBRE O QUESITO COR/RAÇA

As a British South Asian, I have spent much of my personal and professional life dealing with issues of racism. I have become convinced that it is necessary to understand one’s enemy in order to combat him and was thus driven to read Hitler’s original writings. However, this paper was difficult to write: the content of Mein Kampf is disturbing, particularly to a person who I feel Hitler would h...