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Journal of Investigative Medicine, 2004
Ethnic studies review, Apr 30, 1997
Journal of Investigative Medicine, 2001
![Research paper thumbnail of [Review of] Stewart E. Tolnay. The Bottom Rung: African American Family Life on Southern Farms](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/100854390/thumbnails/1.jpg)
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International quarterly of community health education, 1992
Researchers in disciplines of health, recreation/leisure, and labor point out how their respectiv... more Researchers in disciplines of health, recreation/leisure, and labor point out how their respective fields address individual health and societal well-being. However, such perspectives are more often expressed in single tracks or combinations of health and recreation, health and employment, or recreation and unemployment, but seldom all three together. This article suggests the adaptation of a more inclusive conceptual model which triangulates the interdependence between individual or social health, access to public sector recreational activities, and target populations of unemployed people. An inclusive systems model which articulates theoretical and practical linkages between health, recreation, and joblessness is proposed. This interdisciplinary approach can help social service agencies ameliorate individual and social pathologies brought on by unemployment.
Explorations in Ethnic Studies, 1994
Hollywood films play a significant role in constructing and reinforcing inter-eth nic tensions th... more Hollywood films play a significant role in constructing and reinforcing inter-eth nic tensions througH negative representa tions of Asian Americans and African Americans. While white males are most often depicted as smart and romantically desirable, thereby reinforcing an ideology of white male domi nance, Asian Americans and Blacks are typically diminished to demeaning and secondary status. Thi article explores these racist steretotypes in director Michael Cimino's 1 9985 film Year of the Dragon (as well as a number of other Hollywood films), arguing that such race and gender-specific imagery is functional; for while it promotes race/gender stereotypes, it also serves to rationalize white dominance as necessary to sustain the status-quo.
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](Professor Herman Gray offers a fascinating, highly analytical, and well-researched account of rac... more Professor Herman Gray offers a fascinating, highly analytical, and well-researched account of race (and gender) mirrored in the prism of televised images. Focusing mostly on the decade of the 1980s, in an almost razzle-dazzle and didactic fashion he explores the deep socio logical and political manifestations of televised racial imagery and its effects on the well-being of American society. Gray's book is a "televisual" combination of To ni Morrison's dis course on race imagery in Playing in the Dark (Harvard, 1992) and Cor nel West's socio-political treatise in Race Matters (Vintage, 1994). His 10 chapters don't always seamlessly flow, as if initially written for differ ent audiences, but each is bridged with an overall rationale brilliantly stated in the Introduction. Framed "largely within the time-span that begins with the election of Ronald Reagan as President (1 980) and end ing with the airing of the last episode of The Cosby Show, which took place during the Los Angeles riots on April 30, 1992," the author inter prets the televised images of race in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement, which led up to the Republican backlash against The Great Society. Wa tching Race thankfully includes gay/lesbian concerns. But this needed perspective in ethnic studies falls glaringly short in Chapter 8 regarding A Different World, the author's favorite TV show (along with Fra nk's Place and Roc, with In Living Color his least favorite.) For all its so-called "imaginatively use(d) (of) the dominant conventions of the genre to saturate its televisual world with blackness ... " (p1 03), Gray fails to point out how A Different World overlooked opportunities to address black gay/lesbian issues. Perhaps understandable from the show's creators' viewpoint given the recent demise of Ellen, still, Gray's critical analysis is glaringly omitted. So were controversies about black student-athletes visa -vis the athletic enterprise, which sociologist Harry Edwards has long made a national issue. Gray does address black athlete recruit ment in Fra nk's Place, and black homosexuality in Roc and In Living Color, but won't the milieu of the Historically Black Colleges make inter
Ethnic Studies Review, 1997
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Health Education Journal, 2016
Objective: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot is an award-winning biography e... more Objective: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot is an award-winning biography engaging its readers on important topics ranging from race, science and ethics to the social determinants of health. However, the multiple pedagogic impacts of this book on the public health classroom setting have yet to be comprehensively explored. Method: A qualitative, pre/post-test study design assessed the perceptions of 17 Master’s of Public Health students on topics of health disparities and medical ethics. A total of 14 students were assigned to an intervention (book-based seminar course; Cohort A) and 3 students acted as the non-intervention group (Cohort B) over a study period of 10 weeks. Results: A thematic analysis uncovered more profound changes in the perceptions of the intervention group. All students were aware of health disparities over the course of the 10-week class; however, significant traction was gained on more complex issues linked to the social determinants of he...
Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 2010
Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 1992
Abstract The unemployed are most at risk for lack of access to recreational services at a time wh... more Abstract The unemployed are most at risk for lack of access to recreational services at a time when, for their own health and well-being, they may need it most.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Policy makers in several major cities have used quantitative data about local food environments t... more Policy makers in several major cities have used quantitative data about local food environments to identify neighborhoods with inadequate access to healthy food. We conducted qualitative interviews with residents of a healthy food priority area to assess whether residents’ perceptions of food access were consistent with previous quantitative findings, and to better understand lived experience of food access. We found that proximity to stores, transportation mode, and cost shaped decisions about food shopping. The local food bank played an important role in improving food access. Participants had varied suggestions for ways to improve the neighborhood, both related and unrelated to the food environment.
International Handbook of Positive Aging
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Primary health care research & development, Jan 8, 2018
Aim The objective of this study was to seek decision-making insights on the provider level to gai... more Aim The objective of this study was to seek decision-making insights on the provider level to gain understanding of the values that shape how providers deliver preventive health in the primary care setting. The primary care clinic is a core site for preventive health delivery. While many studies have identified barriers to preventive health, less is known regarding how primary care providers (PCPs) make preventive health decisions such as what services to provide, under what circumstances, and why they might choose one over another. Qualitative methods were chosen to deeply explore these issues. We conducted semi-structured, one-on-one interviews with 21 PCPs at clinics affiliated with an academic medical center. Interviews with providers were recorded and transcribed. We conducted a qualitative analysis to identify themes and develop a theoretical framework using Grounded Theory methods. Findings The following themes were revealed: longitudinal care with an established PCP-patient ...
Journal of Investigative Medicine, 2004
Ethnic studies review, Apr 30, 1997
Journal of Investigative Medicine, 2001
International quarterly of community health education, 1992
Researchers in disciplines of health, recreation/leisure, and labor point out how their respectiv... more Researchers in disciplines of health, recreation/leisure, and labor point out how their respective fields address individual health and societal well-being. However, such perspectives are more often expressed in single tracks or combinations of health and recreation, health and employment, or recreation and unemployment, but seldom all three together. This article suggests the adaptation of a more inclusive conceptual model which triangulates the interdependence between individual or social health, access to public sector recreational activities, and target populations of unemployed people. An inclusive systems model which articulates theoretical and practical linkages between health, recreation, and joblessness is proposed. This interdisciplinary approach can help social service agencies ameliorate individual and social pathologies brought on by unemployment.
Explorations in Ethnic Studies, 1994
Hollywood films play a significant role in constructing and reinforcing inter-eth nic tensions th... more Hollywood films play a significant role in constructing and reinforcing inter-eth nic tensions througH negative representa tions of Asian Americans and African Americans. While white males are most often depicted as smart and romantically desirable, thereby reinforcing an ideology of white male domi nance, Asian Americans and Blacks are typically diminished to demeaning and secondary status. Thi article explores these racist steretotypes in director Michael Cimino's 1 9985 film Year of the Dragon (as well as a number of other Hollywood films), arguing that such race and gender-specific imagery is functional; for while it promotes race/gender stereotypes, it also serves to rationalize white dominance as necessary to sustain the status-quo.
Professor Herman Gray offers a fascinating, highly analytical, and well-researched account of rac... more Professor Herman Gray offers a fascinating, highly analytical, and well-researched account of race (and gender) mirrored in the prism of televised images. Focusing mostly on the decade of the 1980s, in an almost razzle-dazzle and didactic fashion he explores the deep socio logical and political manifestations of televised racial imagery and its effects on the well-being of American society. Gray's book is a "televisual" combination of To ni Morrison's dis course on race imagery in Playing in the Dark (Harvard, 1992) and Cor nel West's socio-political treatise in Race Matters (Vintage, 1994). His 10 chapters don't always seamlessly flow, as if initially written for differ ent audiences, but each is bridged with an overall rationale brilliantly stated in the Introduction. Framed "largely within the time-span that begins with the election of Ronald Reagan as President (1 980) and end ing with the airing of the last episode of The Cosby Show, which took place during the Los Angeles riots on April 30, 1992," the author inter prets the televised images of race in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement, which led up to the Republican backlash against The Great Society. Wa tching Race thankfully includes gay/lesbian concerns. But this needed perspective in ethnic studies falls glaringly short in Chapter 8 regarding A Different World, the author's favorite TV show (along with Fra nk's Place and Roc, with In Living Color his least favorite.) For all its so-called "imaginatively use(d) (of) the dominant conventions of the genre to saturate its televisual world with blackness ... " (p1 03), Gray fails to point out how A Different World overlooked opportunities to address black gay/lesbian issues. Perhaps understandable from the show's creators' viewpoint given the recent demise of Ellen, still, Gray's critical analysis is glaringly omitted. So were controversies about black student-athletes visa -vis the athletic enterprise, which sociologist Harry Edwards has long made a national issue. Gray does address black athlete recruit ment in Fra nk's Place, and black homosexuality in Roc and In Living Color, but won't the milieu of the Historically Black Colleges make inter
Ethnic Studies Review, 1997
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Health Education Journal, 2016
Objective: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot is an award-winning biography e... more Objective: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot is an award-winning biography engaging its readers on important topics ranging from race, science and ethics to the social determinants of health. However, the multiple pedagogic impacts of this book on the public health classroom setting have yet to be comprehensively explored. Method: A qualitative, pre/post-test study design assessed the perceptions of 17 Master’s of Public Health students on topics of health disparities and medical ethics. A total of 14 students were assigned to an intervention (book-based seminar course; Cohort A) and 3 students acted as the non-intervention group (Cohort B) over a study period of 10 weeks. Results: A thematic analysis uncovered more profound changes in the perceptions of the intervention group. All students were aware of health disparities over the course of the 10-week class; however, significant traction was gained on more complex issues linked to the social determinants of he...
Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 2010
Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 1992
Abstract The unemployed are most at risk for lack of access to recreational services at a time wh... more Abstract The unemployed are most at risk for lack of access to recreational services at a time when, for their own health and well-being, they may need it most.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Policy makers in several major cities have used quantitative data about local food environments t... more Policy makers in several major cities have used quantitative data about local food environments to identify neighborhoods with inadequate access to healthy food. We conducted qualitative interviews with residents of a healthy food priority area to assess whether residents’ perceptions of food access were consistent with previous quantitative findings, and to better understand lived experience of food access. We found that proximity to stores, transportation mode, and cost shaped decisions about food shopping. The local food bank played an important role in improving food access. Participants had varied suggestions for ways to improve the neighborhood, both related and unrelated to the food environment.
International Handbook of Positive Aging
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Primary health care research & development, Jan 8, 2018
Aim The objective of this study was to seek decision-making insights on the provider level to gai... more Aim The objective of this study was to seek decision-making insights on the provider level to gain understanding of the values that shape how providers deliver preventive health in the primary care setting. The primary care clinic is a core site for preventive health delivery. While many studies have identified barriers to preventive health, less is known regarding how primary care providers (PCPs) make preventive health decisions such as what services to provide, under what circumstances, and why they might choose one over another. Qualitative methods were chosen to deeply explore these issues. We conducted semi-structured, one-on-one interviews with 21 PCPs at clinics affiliated with an academic medical center. Interviews with providers were recorded and transcribed. We conducted a qualitative analysis to identify themes and develop a theoretical framework using Grounded Theory methods. Findings The following themes were revealed: longitudinal care with an established PCP-patient ...