Necessary conversations : understanding racism as a barrier to achieving health equity /
"From racial hierarchies to authentic storytelling, the narrative of Mississippi is one of contrasts that parallel and amplify larger national trends in many ways. To study Mississippi, where RWJF held its fifth annual Sharing Knowledge conference in March 2020, is to learn how structural racis...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation culture of health series ;
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "From racial hierarchies to authentic storytelling, the narrative of Mississippi is one of contrasts that parallel and amplify larger national trends in many ways. To study Mississippi, where RWJF held its fifth annual Sharing Knowledge conference in March 2020, is to learn how structural racism was built, venerated, and fiercely defended in the United States to maintain the status quo of non-White disenfranchisement. Yet the story of the state is also one of strength, rooted in a people who have worked collectively and in community to fight a system designed to punch back"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 242 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197641491 0197641490 9780197641484 0197641482 9780197641507 0197641504 |