Tim Wise speaks about colorblind racism
Tags: health/medicine, inequality, prejudice/discrimination, race/ethnicity, colorblind racism, health care, housing discrimination, institutional racism, racial profiling, tim wise, wealth, 21 to 60 mins Year: 2011 Length: 55:57 Access: Vimeo Summary: In this speech Tim Wise offers an incisive critique of colorblind race logics in US politics. To be blind to color, he argues, is to be blind to the consequences of color, making it impossible to effectively address racial inequality. In the talk Wise points to employment discrimination (18:00, 32:00), racial profiling (11:00), wealth disparities (13:00), housing discrimination (22:00), and health care disparities (42:00) in a nice explication of institutional racism, and he counters the popular notion among white Americans that the United States suddenly became post-racial following the election of President Barack Obama in 2008. While this clip is rich with information on racial inequality generally, it is particularly useful in broaching the topic of colorblind racism. After watching it, students can be engaged in a discussion about the consequences of denying the existence of race, which remains a central principle of social organization irrespective of whether people talk about it or not. Note that Wise explores the topic of colorblind racism in his book Colorblind: the Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity and in a nice pair of essays he wrote (here and here). Submitted By: Lester Andrist
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Tags: bodies, health/medicine, political economy, health care, pre-existing conditions, political economy of health care, 11 to 20 mins Year: 2007 Length: 19:50 Access: YouTube (clip 1; clip 2) Summary: This clip from Michael Moore's Sicko tells the emotionally-charged stories of several Americans who have struggled to get adequate health care from private, for-profit health insurance. It weaves their stories with private interviews with former workers within the industry and official testimony from industry insiders who have spoken out against the industry. Before showing the clip in my Social Problems class, I facilitated a debate on whether health care is a privilege or right, then asked students to pretend they were a business executive for a for-profit health insurance company, asking them how they might maximize profits in their health insurance plans when health care is treated as a commodity. Finally, after showing the video, I asked the class: what techniques were used to increase profits? Does the problem stem from individuals working in the health care industry or from the health care system itself (linking it back to notions of health care as a right or privilege)? I put this in the context of the three health care models (national insurance, social insurance, private insurance) discussed in James Russell's (2006) "Social Policy in Health Care: Europe and the US" (excerpted in this Social Problems book). Submitted By: Paul Dean |
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