White doctors and nurses on racial inequality in health care in the USA: Whiteness and colour-blind racial ideology

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1431-1450

  Malat, Jennifer ^a   Clark Hitt, Rose ^b   Burgess, Diana Jill ^c   Friedemann Sanchez, Greta ^a   van Ryn, Michelle ^d  

^a Department of Sociology ^*  (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Colour blind; Qualitative; Racial discourse; Racial inequality; White racial ideology; Whiteness

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; IDEOLOGY; RACIAL DISPARITY; RACISM;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955159743     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: 14664356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01419870903501970     Document Type: Article

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