The American Medical Association on the Case for Teaching Racism: Afrocentric Literary Pedagogy in Nursing Education and Clinical Practice (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781664170889)

The public lynching of George Floyd re-exposed the rotten underbelly of America and this, together with the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black and Brown communities, the global Black Lives Matter protests, and the racist, xenophobic demagoguery of Donald Trump, resurrected the old debates about medical racism, race relations, implicit bias, vaccine nationalism/vaccine imperialism, structural inequality, police brutality, vaccine hesitancy, unethical human experimentation, vaccine diplomacy, qualified immunity, conspiracy theories, and social justice. Then in 2020 the American Medical Association formally declared racism a public health crisis, defined racism as a social determinant of health, and embraced the idea of medical schools teaching medical students about racism. Alas, the nursing curriculum is somewhat silent on these questions. Decolonizing the nursing curriculum, long overdue, is therefore imperative. This book explores the question of decolonizing the nursing curriculum from the angles of postcolonial theory, critiquing the Western literary canon, American history, literary criticism, African literature, cultural criticism, Afrocentric theory, democracy, African-American literature, and critical race theory.

Author: Francis Kwarteng
ISBN-10: 166417088X
ISBN-13: 9781664170889
Publisher: Xlibris Us
Language: English
Published: 04/26/2021
Pages: 616
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.96lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.37d