This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of UK African Diaspora health seekers and their sustained health inequalities in the health market. It translates their often-silenced voices into a decolonial praxis, where their experiences illuminate the hidden factors that have blighted change in health outcomes for these communities. The book excavates and breaks down the nature of these hidden factors, as historical patterns of behaviour that comprise whiteness over the longue durée. Using the lenses of decolonial and critical race studies, the book places whiteness within an ethical and moral framework in order to examine the hidden factors behind health inequalities. The book also looks at intersectionality and discusses whether it is actually fit for purpose as an analytical framework for discussing the health seeking behaviours of both Black men and Black women in relation to their unequal access to the health market.
Author(s): Faye Bruce, Ornette D. Clennon
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 128
City: Cham
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
1: Introduction: How Does the African Diaspora Health-Seeker Fair in the Current Health Market in the UK?
Introduction
The Health Landscape for African Diaspora (Black) Health Seekers
Racism as a Social Determinant of Health
The Role of Whiteness in the Health Market
Works Cited
2: What Decoloniality Looks Like in the Health Market
Introduction
Historical Formation of “Race”
Aristotle and Non-human Slaves?
Decolonising Human Ethics
The Myth of the Non-human
Whiteness and Capitalism
The Role of Whiteness in the Health Market
The Invisibility of Whiteness
Gatekeeping and Whiteness
Saracenisation: Homogenising and Essentialising
Conclusion
Works Cited
3: The Racial and Gendered Determinants of Health
Introduction
Coloniality of Power: Resisting Whiteness
Commentary
Being Dehumanised by Whiteness
Commentary
Intersectionality: Reasserting Race and Gender?
Commentary
Black Women, Empire and Intersectionality
Gendered Dehumanisation
The Relevance of Intersectionality for Black Women
Intersectionality and the Black Male?
Commentary
Empire and the Black Male Gender
Black Male Health and Imperial Whiteness
Commentary
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
Conclusion
Works Cited
4: Decolonising Public Health: What Are the Alternatives?
Introduction
The Importance of the Church for Health Support
Commentary
Commentary
African Healers
Who Are the Traditional Healers?
What Do Traditional Healers Do?
African Religions
Health Prevention (i.e. Disease Prevention)
Traditional Remedies
Commentary
The African Model of Health
Mistrust
Commentary
International Context: Traditional Medicine, WHO
United Kingdom, a Case Study: Coordinating Traditional and Complementary Medicine (T&CM) with Western Health Care
The Central Role of the Church in African Diaspora Communities
Conclusion
Works Cited
5: Where Do We Go from Here? Decolonised Health Advocacy
Introduction
Caribbean & African Health Network (CAHN): A Case Study
CAHN as an Infrastructure Organisation
Commentary
Black Beetle Health
Conclusion
Works Cited
