Structural racism is a macro-level condition symbiotic to church sanctioned-colonization of territories that constrains socially disadvantaged groups’ opportunities, resources, and well-being; while supporting outgroup, schisms held in place by the representational creation of t…
Globally, rates of maternal morbidity and mortality have declined; however, in the United States they continue to climb. In this dissertation we investigated individual-level and neighborhood-level exposures and their roles on adverse delivery outcomes, including severe maternal…
The recruitment of diverse nurse faculty fosters culturally competent teaching, role modeling of cultural awareness, and mentorship for diverse nursing students. However, with regard to the evolution of New York City’s diversity, the nursing profession has historically failed to…
This dissertation examines the differential impact of voter suppression on life expectancy, gestational age, and birth weight by race-ethnicity. Voter suppression, though not typically studied by public health researchers, is a critical part of understanding how racial dispariti…
This work is a comparative analysis of three diverse approaches on science, economics and politics and their respective interrelationship to race concluding that science itself might be both the product of and the cause of racial ideology; that a capitalist economic structure is…
This dissertation focuses on measuring the health effects of exposure to structural racism, or racism that forms through historic and contemporary policies that produce a disparate impact by race. After defining various forms of racism and describing how structural racism relate…
This thesis fills the gap that exists on the analysis and documentation of the ethno-racial positive and negative cultural attributes of the figure of the mestizo given by the media and religious institutions in Mexico. I contribute to the state-of-the-art scholarship on this to…