Race/Health Update: September 2002

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Volume 5 No. 9

September, 2002

What's New!!

http://academic.udayton.edu/race/whatsnew.htm

Traducción disponible en website en español.

http://academic.udayton.edu/race/espanol.htm

Tradução disponível no website em Protuguese

http://academic.udayton.edu/race/portuguese.htm

Traduction disponible sur le website en français

http://academic.udayton.edu/race/français.htm

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Take Action Against " The Racial Privacy Initiative "

Ward Connerly, the UC Regent appointed by Governor Pete

, has introduced a dangerous, deceptive, and irresponsible

initiative in California that he calls " The Racial Privacy

Initiative, " even though it has nothing to do with privacy and more

to do with his political agenda. The initiative is a radical measure

that would damage Californian's ability to address racial and ethnic

disparities in healthcare and disease patterns, educational

resources, academic achievement, hate crime and discrimination. The

initiative is also deceptive, with a long list of

confusing " exemptions " that are designed simply to provide its

backers with one-line comebacks to the serious concerns experts have

raised about its sweeping, irresponsible approach. For example,

doctors and public health experts will be barred from collecting and

using critical information.

Medical research " doesn't cover health system's needs. The

Connerly Initiative attempts to allay fears about its impact on

healthcare by including an exemption for " otherwise lawful

classification of medical research subjects and patients, " but

medical research, it is generally agreed, consists of controlled

experiments that involve a group of patients, or research subjects,

who are aware of their involvement in a medical research project and

who give consent to participate in an experiment as a subject.

Critical sources of information will be lost. The narrowly

crafted provision doesn't cover a large amount of the information

needed to protect public health and advance healthcare and disease

prevention. That information comes from surveys, questionnaires,

interviews or epidemiological research. Data on race and ethnicity

are extracted from public health and other records collected by

public agencies -- all of which will be off-limits if the Connerly

Initiative passes. This demographic data is NOT obtained

through " medical research " of any kind. Thus, the so-

called " medical " exemption is a public relations ruse and fails to

recognize how our healthcare and public health systems work.

This link has everything you need to know about how you can

defeat the Connerly Classification by Race, Ethnicity, and National

Origin Initiative. http://www.informedcalifornia.org/.

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Syllabi

08/27/02 Gender and the Law (Syllabus)

http://academic.udayton.edu/gender/syllabus/

08/27/02 Bioterrorism, Public Health and the Law (Syllabus)

http://academic.udayton.edu/health/syllabi/Bioterrorism/index.htm

Race, Racism and the Law

http://www.udayton.edu/race

Race generally

09/15/02 Bakke and the Causation Fallacy

09/15/02 (e)Racing the Fourth Amendment

09/15/02 Associational Freedoms of Private Minority Clubs

09/02/02 " Educated " to Feel Inferior "

09/02/02 The Racial Lessons of 9/11

09/01/02 Racial Discrimination and Directorial Duty of Care

09/01/02 Is Anything Ever Free?: NAFTA the FTAA and Minorities

09/01/02 Race and Death in Texas: Saldano v State

09/01/02 Racial Profiling and " Whren v United States "

African American

09/15/02 How I Became a Black American

09/15/02 Globalization and African Americans

09/15/02 Economic Empowerment: Washington and Du Bois Approaches

09/15/02 Reconstruction Era and African American Marriage

09/15/02 African American Coparenting Joint Adoption Model

09/15/02 Black America and Reparations

09/15/02 African American Lawyers in Arkansas

09/01/02 Competing Views of Black Progress

09/01/02 Disrespect and a Black Judge

09/01/02 Responsibility and Reparations for Slavery

European American

09/15/02 White America and Reparations

Native American

09'15/02 Flashpoints and the Indian Child Welfare Act

International Law and Human Rights

09/15/02 Discrimination and the South African Legal Profession

09/15/02 Sexual Violence and Genocide Against Tutsi Women

09/21/02 Mandela and the War: No More Mr. Nice Guy

09/02/02 " Burnt Negro " : Comedy or Offense? An Appeal for support!

09/01/02 Silencing Maori Women: Alliances of Men Across Race

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Global Racism: WANTED: articles and reports about racism, racial

discrimination and law. Articles need to be in English and sent

electronically. Articles must have complete citation. Vernellia

Randall, randall@...

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Race, Health Care and the Law

http://www.udayton.edu/health

09/02/02 Race and Advanced Reproductive Technology Mistakes

09/02/02 Blue Ribbon Egg Donations and Racism

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If you work in the area of health care, health policy or health law

and would like to be a part of an online discussion/information group

on " Race, HealthCare and the Law, contact Professor Vernellia

Randall, randall@....

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