“The More Things Change…:” Civil Rights Health Assessment in a ‘Majority-Minority’ U.S. Community

Negotiations of the Complicitous Nature of US Racial/Ethnic Categorization: Exploring Rhetorical Strategies

“…Not surprisingly, we found that both European Americans and African Americans born within the US were more likely to enact rhetoric that reflected the complicitous nature of US racial and ethnic categories. While some might be surprised that African Americans are complicit with a classification system that oppresses and subordinates their existence, research indicates that this is not atypical given the power of such systems (e.g., see Crapanzano's [1985] work on South Africa; Orbe's [2005] study on a US majority-minority community).…”