Clovis E. Semmes

Racism, Health, and Post-Industrialism

A Theory of African-American Health

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Historical, sociological, and ecological analyses reveal that the health of a people is broadly determined by the strength, resilience, and vitality of their culture. The destructive effects of oppression and exploitation on health linger and are difficult to transcend when systemic attacks on the institutional stability of a people persist. Normative cultural destabilization produces added and abnormal challenges to the health status of African Americans. The pursuit of health becomes both a goal and a tool of liberation. Better health builds and releases mental, physical, and spiritual energy that can be directed toward achieving empowerment and development. The process of self-consciously pursuing better health attacks the fundamental mechanisms of cultural exploitation and oppression by serving to dismantle colonial-like relationships of dependency.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 469g
• ISBN-13: 9780275949457
• ISBN-10: 0275949451
• Artikelnr.: 25568405

Autorenporträt

CLOVIS E. SEMMES (Jabulani Kamau Makalani) is Professor of African American Studies at Eastern Michigan University. He has published widely in the areas of African American studies and sociology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Emancipation of the Roots of Health Race and Culture Contact
and the Equilibrium of Health Antebellum Life and Health The Challenges of
Post-Slavery Rural and Urban Life Folk, Popular, and Alternative Health
Practices An Extended Look at Alternative African-American Health Practices
Racism, the Medical-Industrial Complex, and Post Industrialism Contemporary
Challenges to Health: Toward a Wholistic Theory Strategies for Change:
Community Action and Public Policy Selected Bibliography Index