Increasing Racial And Ethnic Diversity In Social Psychology

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Potter and Perry (2017) states, “Health disparities are preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health.” Health disparity is experienced by social disadvantaged populations. These vulnerable populations can include race or ethnicity, gender, education, income, disability, and geographic location (Potter & Perry, 2017, p. 33). The Banes family

Answer Key: A Feedback: Remember that only approximately 5% of psychologists in the United States are members of a minority group.

The United States is a melting pot of cultural diversity. For a country that was founded by individuals fleeing persecution, it has taken us many years to grant African-Americans equal rights, and even longer for those rights to be recognized. Despite all the effort to eliminate inequality in this country, health disparity among this minority group remains a significant issue. Research in this area has pointed to several key reasons for this gap that center on differences in culture, socioeconomics, and lack of health literacy.

Although the United States is a leader in healthcare innovation and spends more money on health care than any other industrialized nation, not all people in the United State benefit equally from this progress as a health care disparity exists between racial and ethnic minorities and white Americans. Health care disparity is defined as “a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social or economic disadvantage…adversely affecting groups of people who have systematically experienced greater social and/or economic obstacles to health and/or clean environment based on their racial or ethnic group; religion; socioeconomic status; gender; age; mental health; cognitive, sensory or physical disability; sexual orientation or gender identity; geographic location; or other characteristics historically linked to discrimination or exclusion” (National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities [NPAEHD], 2011, p. 3). Overwhelming evidence shows that racial and ethnic minorities receive inferior quality health care compared to white Americans, and multiple factors contribute to these disparities, including geography, lack of access to adequate health coverage, communication difficulties between patients and providers, cultural barriers, and lack of access to providers (American College of Physicians,

Healthcare diversities among healthcare professionals have been a challenge within the healthcare system. There are various publications that state that the underrepresented minorities have a higher chance of not graduating medical school, accruing high student loans, and ultimately were unsatisfied with their jobs (Pololi et al., 2013). This is not only disturbing, but this represents the individuals who are or will be servicing the public on a daily basis. As the population increases, racial differences increase, so to combat these disparities cultural competencies have to come into play within the health-professions workforce. For instance, although African Americans constitute to 13% of the population, in the physician workforce they only account for 4%, also women who are part of the workforce outweigh the amount of men by at least 4%, respectively (U.S. Census Bureau, 2014). Coincidentally, whites make up to 49% (both men and women) of the total U.S. MD active physicians based on the labor workforce statistics of 2013.

Diverse cultural, ethnic, and social backgrounds function as sources of person, family, and community values. These backgrounds serve as a function of being the base of the foundation that makes up a family, community, or a person’s values. A culture shapes how people experience the world. It allows them to be a part of a community through interrelation of beliefs, experiences, and traditions that they share through their backgrounds. Social backgrounds influence how they might view their life values and how they see others. Cultural, ethnic, and social backgrounds affects how someone or a group may view and experience communicational, nutritional, and spiritual values along with the rest of the 12 domains of Purnell’s model. Experiencing

Looking at these percentages I can see where other races than white feel they are the minority, America is predominantly white. To me this is similar to what the teachers were feeling just on a very large scale. I believe that if the percentages changed and the minority becomes white, we would feel the same.

Is race-thinking an inevitable product of the fact of human diversity? Before attempting to address this question, we must first deconstruct and define the terms race-thinking as well as race. Race-thinking, as Paul C. Taylor defines the term, occurs when human beings assign “generic meaning to human bodies and bloodlines” (16); it concerns itself with the “kinds, called races, and... about individuals, who thereby have racial identities (18). The concept of race is an elusive term to define, especially since philosophers, biologists, and sociologists may define the term via different methods. Michael Hardimon, a philosopher at UC San Diego, defines the logical core of the concept of race by imposing a set of three theses that constitutes and

In the last 100 years, the American population of 65 years or older people has increased eleven times. The 2030 estimates project that 22.3 percent of the population (80 million) will be 65 or older. (Bookman & Kimbrel, 2011). Basically, the majority of the over 65 population is healthier and is living longer. However, people of color have suffered through racial suppression in this country. Many of them enter old age after a lifetime of struggle that has not allowed them to save for retirement and where, because they have not had access to decent health care, they are in poor health. (Bookman & Kimbrel, 2011). Medicare does not cover all of the care the elderly may need, especially those with chronic conditions.

Texas Tech is a large University located in Lubbock Texas and is home to many faculty members. Because it is so big we, decided that focusing on one college, the college for human sciences, for the semester is the best way to ensure we give our best work out there, in hopes of in the future being able to help other colleges at Texas Tech University. The college of Human Sciences has a total of one hundred and twenty-eight faculty members according the fall 2015 faculty census on the Texas Tech website (Faculty Head Count). They also break this number down by ethnicity. There majority of the faculty population is White-Non-Hispanic people accounting for ninety-nine out of the one-hundred twenty-eight people (Faculty Head Count). The least was Black-Non-Hispanic, accounting for only two (Faculty Head Count). We hope to get as many ethnicities to participate in this program to be able to study trends in the specific ethnicity and then to compare and contrast with others (Faculty Head Count).

There are particular assumptions regarding the racial identity and unique challenges of multiracial individuals of mixed African-American and European-American descent that have arisen based on historical trends. For example, it is assumed that multiracial individuals have been expected to identify as mono-racial African-Americans as a result of legal and social constructions (Monahan, 2014). In addition, theoretical literature suggests that this group of individuals have faced challenges in their racial identity development, struggling with various possible racial identities. Racial identity development and self-concept formation begins in childhood and is greatly affected by the attitudes and interaction of adults. The present study, researched

As I reflect over my life, I appreciate the many diverse experiences I’ve came to encounter. My experience with diversity dates back to birth. I am from a small rural town, Moss Point, MS. and notably the last state to abolish slavery. The town currently has a population of 13,704 people and consists of 73% Blacks or African Americans, 23% Caucasian, 1% Hispanic or Latino and 1% bi-racial.

As a Nigerian-American female growing up in the South, I have always been placed under racial "caps". These caps limited what the people in my community were socially capable of. So, 'normal' or 'ordinary' to the people under the caps would actually be subpar, but they would never know. At the age of 13, I told myself that I was going to be better than the caps' extraordinary, I was going to be a great product of Atlanta, Georgia. Recently, I found myself wondering and asking myself open questions that all seemed to revolve around the field of psychology. The most current question is: based on the class separations observed throughout history that were based on one's skin complexion, even within the same race or ethnic group, what was it that

Since I started this class, I have a learned a great deal about cultural diversity in the classroom and abroad. My perspective has changed slightly but my knowledge of this subject has improved. In my family, my father taught me about the civil rights movement and the evils of segregation in the U.S. My parents taught me to be tolerant of all humans, no matter what they look like, how they dress, or their sexual orientation. My family has always been liberal thinkers who taught me the dark history of racism and bigotry in this country. As an educator I would be accepting to all race, creeds, and religious peoples.