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Exploring Racism In Health Pedagogy, Marian Evans Md, Mph, Jean M. Breny Phd, Mph, Anuli Uzoaru Njoku, Yan Searcy Phd

Race and Pedagogy Journal: Teaching and Learning for Justice

Utilizing a classroom incident that prompted formal public and informal private conversations about race across the campus of a New England regional comprehensive university, we suggest that the discussion of race in public health and health promotion is often compartmentalized. The pedagogy of public health and health promotion often examines race in terms of health disparities, access to health care, cultural sensitivity and competence among public health providers. While this examination is applauded, it does not adequately confront racism and the experience of race by students in actual public health classrooms. Race, we argue, appears theoretical and does not acknowledge …