DEMS 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Color Blindness, Ectopic Pregnancy, Maternal Health

• School: York University
• Department: Disaster and Emergency Management
• Course: DEMS 2700
• Professor: Mike

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Introduction - terminology: critical race feminism & intersectionality, case study: inequalities in maternal mortality in the united states, mid-year exam information. Terminology: race, racialization, racism, people were divided into groups based on the biological differences in human species. Is both individual and is also embedded in institutions. In health care there are various ways racism is embedded. It"s a social construction over time, its fluid in which we have different understandings of people in different moments: ex. of institutional/systemic racism, the legal system which has biases, refugees accessing health care. 13/11/2019: critical race feminism focuses on the issues of power, oppression, and conflict centralized in feminist theory. Intersectionality: crenshaw: how discourses of resistance (antiracism and feminism) can also marginalize, crenshaw: anti-racist strategies built around idea of black men; anti-misogynist strategies built around white women, examples: challenges. This often makes both efforts ineffective for black women who face distinct.