Dennis Raphael wrote:

Is there any way to get the USA off ethnic and racial disprarities and onto
income disparities?  :-)

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Sivan Bomze <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Racial Disparity can lead to income disparity if the jobs aren't there for
specific racial groups...can it not??

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I would also like to add my support to Sivan comment. Racism is a cause of 
income disparity and thus a determinant of health. Thus, if we are talking 
about racial disparities in health we must talk about racism and not just 
income issues. Also, if we talk about income disparities, we must talk about 
causes of these disparities. I feel that the language often used to talk 
about social determinants of health should be expanded from "povery, income 
and social exclusion"  to talking about social inequality as a result of 
oppression: racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, etc.

In our Canadian society (where this listserv originates from) we are taught 
the myth that racism etc basically no longer occurs and that we are not 
supposed to talk about racism etc, and thus the language of "povery, income 
and social exclusion" doesn't necessarily lead people to think of oppression 
automatically. Somehow poverty is often constructed as the problem of 
individual people, rather than related to how people are poor because of 
systemic and everyday racist, sexist, homophobic, etc practices meant to 
exclude people who are not members of socially dominant groups (people of 
colour, women, queer people, etc) from jobs and other opportunities. It is 
better to be specific about the causes of health disparities so that we can 
then work to eliminate those disparities.

Thanks,

Lindsay

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