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An Antiracist Health Equity Agenda for Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2022

Thalia González ,
Alexis Etow  and
Cesar De La Vega
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Abstract

With growing public health and health equity challenges brought to the forefront — following racialized health inequities resulting from COVID-19 and a national reckoning around the deaths of unarmed Black victims at the hands of police — an antiracist health equity agenda has emerged naming racism a public health crisis.

Keywords

Education Law and PolicySchool Discipline and PolicingStructural DiscriminationRacism is a Public Health CrisisSocial Determinants of HealthAntiracist Health Equity Agenda
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Symposium Articles
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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 50 , Issue 1: Health Law and Anti-Racism: Reckoning and Response , Spring 2022 , pp. 31 - 37
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© 2022 The Author(s)

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