Critical Race Theory and the Intersection of Race, Law, and Power (2/2)

by Mohan Ambikaipaker, PhD

Wed, Sep 28, 2016 7:20AM

This is the second half of the second lecture in a three part series on Health, Race, and Communication. In this lecture, assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Tulane University, Mohan Ambikaipaker, PhD, touches on the barriers that front Critical Race Theory in its inclusion in the Public Health framework. The series "Health, Race, and Communications" is sponsored by the Tulane Society for Young Black Public Health Professionals, Tulane SPHTM SGA, Tulane Center for Excellence in Maternal and Child Health, Tulane Prevention Research Center, and Tulane University of Academic Affairs.

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Sixteen minutes and fourteen seconds

Why is the constant killing of black men by police not a Public Health issue? What stands in the way of looking at and acting on something through a Public Health framework? In this lecture, Mohan Ambikaipaker, PhD, addresses the barriers that keep current institutional and structural racism from being addressed as a Public Health crisis.

"Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death." -Ruth Gilmore

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