NPR has a program that is aired every holiday season called Radio Lab and one of the topics covered this year is "Race." It reminded me of our conversation at last week's staff meeting about how to address the intake question regarding race. I wouldn't recommend DNA mapping to get this question right every time but you might be surprised at what the journalists have to say about race and DNA, race and medicine and whether or not you can "see" race. As Leigh alluded to in her staff meeting report on this ethical issue, it's not as easy at it seems. I have attached the link here - I would recommend listening!
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2008/11/28
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- Community Action House
- Community Action House (CAH) has a 38 year history of working to end poverty in the Holland area by empowering families and individuals to reach self-sufficiency. The agency operates out of three locations providing emergency services (daily soup kitchen, food pantries, infant needs, personal products), housing services (homelessness prevention services, transitional housing), case management services, employment assistance (as a MI Works Access Point site), and education services (homebuyer education, general life skills). Community Action House also operates the THRIFT BOUTIQUE store located in the Macatawa Resource Center. Proceeds from the THRIFT BOUTIQUE support agency programming. Please visit our website for additional information: www.communityactionhouse.org
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The Community Action House blog has been created to provide an additional communication tool between the organization and the greater Holland community. The blog will be used to generate conversation about issues related to poverty, hunger, homelessness, and community as experienced in the Holland area. We welcome you to visit regularly to view new posts, as well as to register your own thoughts on subjects discussed.
Links
- COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Center on Hunger and Poverty
- Economic Policy Institute
- Food Bank Council of Michigan
- Food Research and Action Center
- Interagency Council on Homelessness
- Institute for Research on Poverty
- Institute on Assets and Social Policy
- Michigan Campaign to End Homelessness
- Michigan League for Human Services
- Michigan State Housing Development Authority
- National Alliance to End Homelessness
- National Center for Children in Poverty
- National Low Income Housing Coalition
- Ottawa Area Housing Coalition
- Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality
- Urban Institute
2 comments:
The idea of race is out dated. The concept of rase is used similar to the concept of species by many people. Members of a species have common characteristics and have the ability to reproduce. Race is defined as a major dvision of humankind characterized by certain similar physical characteristics genetically past down from one generation to the next. Basically the only difference between species and race is the ability to reproduce. If that is the only difference than all humans belong to one race not multiple races.
The question becomes what accounts for the human diversity on our planet. I believe the differences are defined and driven by culture. Culture is a group of learned values shared by a group of people. These shared values determine what is and what is not accepted by the group. This is carried out to the extend of which humans can participate in the group. Culture is learned and directly impacts the physical characteristics of a group by setting parameters on who the members of the group can marry and reproduce with.
If this is ture then the difference between humans is learned behavior. If we learn that one group's culture is not acceptable because the other group looks and acts differently than we can also unlearn this bias. The quciker we drop the idea of multiple race, the quicker we can learn to live as one.
Thanks for the tip. I listened and enjoyed the program.
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