RE: Overrepresentation of African American children

["Bryson, Stephanie Anne" <sbryson@xxxxxx>]

Hi Bill-
If you have time, I would suggest Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial
Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1980s (NY: Routledge,
1986/1989)or Howard Winant's latest book, The World is a Ghetto: Race and
Democracy Since World War II. Omi and Winant coined the term
"racialization." They take an historical approach and offer a fundamental
sociological critique of race as a biologic category.

For an anthropological perspective, there is an interactive anthropoligical
tutorial online at: http://anthro.palomar.edu/ethnicity/ethnic_1.htm. It
does a pretty good job at parsing race, ethnicity, and culture, although
there is no easy consensus about these constructions. 

Also, the latest issue of the American Journal of Public Health contains
several excellent articles on the problems of conflating these terms (or
using categorical and non-inherently meaningful categorizations like the
U.S. Census categories) in health services and other applied research. Nancy
Krieger is a very good resource in this area.

Hope these are helpful suggestions.
   
S Bryson
University of Kansas School of Social Welfare


-----Original Message-----
From: bill higgins [mailto:bill_higginsus@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 10:46 AM
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
Subject: Re: Overrepresentation of African American children


There is a lot of discussion on race.  Could someone
point me towards a reference that discusses the
differences between race, ethnicity and culture?  The
research literature seems to use these terms
interchangeably.

Bill

__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now.
http://mailplus.yahoo.com