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Cureus
June 2023
Internal Medicine, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Edinburg, USA.
Purpose: The Rio Grande Valley in South Texas comprises 5% percent of Texas's population yet 17%of Texas's COVID-19 deaths. We aimed to address underlying mistrust and systemic racism in our Hispanic community that contributes to health inequities by developing a cultural competence guide for public health messaging.
Methods: We employed a mixed method design (e.
In 1972, Glenn Anderson collaborated with New York University colleague Frank Bowe to publish an American Annals of the Deaf article titled "Racism Within the Deaf Community" (Anderson & Bowe, 1972). It was written, in part, due to the influence of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, which affected both the Black Deaf and Black hearing communities, as well as in response to Anderson's experiences with a Deaf club in Detroit. Given that 52 years have passed since the article was published, this updated version, coauthored with Gallaudet University colleague Lindsay Dunn, addresses the following issues, among others: racial inequity in the educational and employment attainment of Black Deaf persons, their personal experiences with institutional and systemic racism, and their perspectives on what must be done to progress toward dismantling institutional and systemic racism in the Deaf community today and tomorrow.
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July 2022
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Copland Building #24, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 2601, Australia; University of Southern Queensland, 487-535 West Street, Toowoomba, Queensland, 4350, Australia.
In many settler-colonial countries, Indigenous people do not access disability services at rates commensurate with disability prevalence. Existing research suggests that services often do not reflect Indigenous values and social practices, impacting on accessibility. Furthermore, disability services have historically been implicated in processes of colonisation.
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January 2022
Gallaudet University, Department of Psychology, Washington, DC.
There is a dearth of literature on health outcomes for Black people who identify as deaf or hard of hearing (DHH). Black DHH individuals generally experience at least 2 types of oppression, racism and audism, both of which contribute to health disparities within the Black and Deaf communities.To understand the prevalence of health outcomes in a Black DHH adult sample and compare this to a Black hearing sample.
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