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What You Should Know About Racism-20: A Fact Sheet In The Time Of Covid-19, Ryan J. Petteway
What You Should Know About Racism-20: A Fact Sheet In The Time Of Covid-19, Ryan J. Petteway
OHSU-PSU School of Public Health Faculty Publications and Presentations
Satire has a history within public health and medical scholarship. However, research and academic works related to COVID-19, health inequities, and structural racism to date have not engaged/explored satire as a critical mode of reflection, analysis, and commentary. Drawing from social epidemiology literature related to structural racism, and rooted in critical race theory and critical theory related to narrative power, this paper—in the form of a "RACISM-20" fact sheet/health promotion flyer—uses satire and humor as critical commentary on mainstream public health discourse of/responses to COVID-19, transposing structural racism and COVID-19 to accentuate how individualist, apolitical, and “colorblind” downstream frames of …