Mapping "Race": Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)

Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel social construction, this has profound methodological implications for the sciences and social sciences. Race must inform how we design large-scale data collection and how scientists utilize race in the context of specific research questions. This landmark collection argues for the recognition of those implications for research and suggests ways in which they may be integrated into future scientific endeavors. It concludes on a prescriptive note, providing an arsenal of multidisciplinary, conceptual, and methodological tools for studying race specifically within the context of health inequalities. **Contributors:** John A. Garcia, Arline T. Geronimus, Laura E. Gómez, Joseph L. Graves Jr., Janet E. Helms, Derek Kenji Iwamoto, Jonathan Kahn, Jay S. Kaufman, Mai M. Kindaichi, Simon J. Craddock Lee, Nancy López, Ethan H. Mereish, Matthew Miller, Gabriel R. Sanchez, Aliya Saperstein, R. Burciaga Valdez, Vicki D. Ybarra Introduction : taking the social construction of race seriously in health disparities research / Laura E. Gómez The politics of framing health disparities markets and justice / Jonathan Kahn Looking at the world through race colored glasses : the fallacy of ascertainment bias in biomedical research and practice / Joseph L. Graves Jr. Ethical dilemmas in statistical practice the problem of race in biomedicine / Jay S. Kaufman A holistic alternative to current survey research approaches to race / John A. Garcia Organizational practice and social constraints problems of racial identity data collection in cancer care and research / Simon J. Craddock Lee Lessons from political science health status and improving how we study race / Gabriel R. Sánchez and Vickie D. Ybarra Advancing Asian American mental health research by enhancing racial identity measures / Derek Kenji Iwamoto, Mai M. Kindaichi, and Matthew Miller Representing the multi-dimensionality of race in survey research / Aliya Saperstein How racial-group comparisons create misinformation in depression research using racial identity theory to conceptualize health disparities / Janet E. Helms and Ethan H. Mereish Jedi public health leveraging contingencies of social identity to grasp and eliminate racial health inequality / Arline T. Geronimus Epilogue : lived race-gender and the racialized-gendered social determinants of health meaningful data collection in health disparities and beyond / Nancy López. Contents 5 Figures and Tables 7 Foreword 9 Preface 13 Chapter 1: Introduction 19 Part I: Charting the Problem 41 Chapter 2: The Politics of Framing Health Disparities 43 Chapter 3: Looking at the World through “Race”-­Colored Glasses 57 Chapter 4: Ethical Dilemmas in Statistical Practice 71 Chapter 5: A Holistic Alternative to Current Survey Research Approaches to Race 85 Part II: Navigating Diverse Empirical Settings 103 Chapter 6: Organizational Practice and Social Constraints 105 Chapter 7: Lessons from Political Science 122 Chapter 8: Advancing Asian American Mental Health Research by Enhancing Racial Identity Measures 135 Part III: Surveying Solutions 149 Chapter 9: Representing the Multidimensionality of Race in Survey Research 151 Chapter 10: How Racial-­Group Comparisons Create Misinformation in Depression Research 164 Chapter 11: Jedi Public Health 181 Chapter 12: Contextualizing Lived Race-­Gender and the Racialized-­Gendered Social Determinants of Health 197 Notes on Contributors 231 Index 235