Comments on: Gravlee et al: Race, Genetics, Social Inequality, and Health

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[...] Neuroanthropology has a post on a recent PLoS paper that discusses Race, Genetics, Social Inequality, and Health. In the PLoS paper, Lance, Amy and Connie are aiming squarely at the use of race in medicine, where [...]

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[...] Gravlee et al: Race, Genetics, Social Inequality, and Health — This post discusses an article by Lance Gravlee, Amy Non and Connie Mulligan in PLoS ONE on [...]

By: dlende

dlende — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:03:46 +0000

I emailed Lance about the post, and he had this comment about my one suggestion for future research. He’s already doing it!

Here’s what he said:

I really like your point about creating an ethnographically grounded measure of subjective experiences of discrimination. And the good news is that we’re doing just that in the Tallahassee project. Yesterday afternoon, in fact, I met with my research team for a update on our progress in moving from ethnography to measurement of exposure
and reactions to racism. Our approach is a generalization of Dressler’s cultural consonance. We started with participant observation and open-ended, semistructured interviews. Now we’re extracting key themes and statements for a round of structured ethnographic interviews in which we’ll ask people to evaluate whether particular events and experiences are instances of racism and about how such experiences impact people. We’ll also ask about culturally
appropriate responses to racism. We’ll use that info to develop a culturally weighted measure of exposure to racism.