More than Skin Deep: Embodied Racism and Health Outcomes in the United States

• In Event: Racism, identity, and health

Abstract

This paper outlines some of the major contributing studies and provides an analysis of the efficacy of the argument for racism as a public health concern. I evaluate the findings based within a critical race theory framework and I argue for the conceptualization of this problem as the embodiment of racism or oppression as well as explore what future investigation into the correlation between self-efficacy and health outcomes might contribute.

Author

• Jennifer Sandoval, Univ of New Mexico