Critical Race Theory, Race Equity, and Public Health: Toward Antiracism Praxis

Racial scholars argue that racism produces rates of morbidity, mortality, and overall well-being that vary depending on socially assigned race. Eliminating racism is therefore central to achieving health equity, but this requires new paradigms that are responsive to structural racism's contemporary influence on health, health inequities, and research. Critical Race Theory is an emerging transdisciplinary, race-equity methodology that originated in legal studies and is grounded in social justice. Critical Race Theory's tools for conducting research and practice are intended to elucidate contemporary racial phenomena, expand the vocabulary with which to discuss complex racial concepts, and challenge racial…

• WK
  W.K. Kellogg Foundation
• CF
  Center for AIDS Research, University of Washington
• NI
  National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
• UA
  UCLA AIDS Institute