Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Preface xiii
6. Chapter 1. Introduction: Taking the Social Construction of Race Seriously in Health Disparities Research 1
7. Part I.Charting the Problem
8. Chapter 2. The Politics of Framing Health Disparities: Markets and Justice 25
9. Chapter 3. Looking at the World through “Race”-Colored Glasses: The Fallacy of Ascertainment Bias in Biomedical Research and Practice 39
10. Chapter 4. Ethical Dilemmas in Statistical Practice: The Problem of Race in Biomedicine 53
11. Chapter 5. A Holistic Alternative to Current Survey Research Approaches to Race 67
12. Part II. Navigating Diverse Empirical Settings
13. Chapter 6. Organizational Practice and Social Constraints: Problems of Racial Identity Data Collection in Cancer Care and Research 87
14. Chapter 7 Lessons from Political Science: Health Status and Improving How We Study Race 104
15. Chapter 8. Advancing Asian American Mental Health Research by Enhancing Racial Identity Measures 117
16. Part III. Surveying Solutions
17. Chapter 9. Representing the Multidimensionality of Race in Survey Research 133
18. Chapter 10. How Racial-Group Comparisons Create Misinformation in Depression Research: Using Racial Identity Theory to Conceptualize Health Disparities 146
19. Chapter 11. Jedi Public Health: Leveraging Contingencies of Social Identity to Grasp and Eliminate Racial Health Inequality 163
20. Chapter 12. Contextualizing Lived Race-Gender and the Racialized-Gendered Social Determinants of Health 179
21. Notes on Contributors 213
22. Index 217