1. After reading the two articles this week on white privilege and reflecting on the two videos shown in class Race the Power of an Illusion and Unnatural Causes, give some examples of white privilege in your life, in the media, workplace, UMFlint and e

Key Terms and Definitions

HCR 362 / HED 562: Section 2

Cultural competence - the ability to provide care for patients with diverse values, beliefs, and behaviors, including tailoring delivery to meet patients’ social, cultural and linguistic needs (Betancourt).

Culture - shared values, attitudes, beliefs, norms, understandings, symbols, etc. of a group of people (Institute of Medicine).

Dominant group - the group that holds the power and authority in society relative to the subordinates and determines how that power and authority may be acceptably used (Tatum).

Ethnicity - An ethnic group or ethnicity is a socially defined category of people who identify with each other based on common ancestral, social, cultural, religious or national experience.

Health disparities – racial or ethnic differences in the quality of healthcare that are not due to access-related factors or clinical needs, preferences and appropriateness of intervention (Institute of Medicine).

Race - a social construct to define groups of people sharing similar physical characteristics and has no meaningful biological difference (Institute of Medicine).

Racism - a system of advantage based on race (Tatum).

Stereotype - the rigid, oversimplified belief or image that is applied to both an entire category of people of a racial or ethnic group and to each individual within it. It is usually negative and greatly distorts the real characteristics of the group (Institute of Medicine).

Subordinate group - the group that lacks power in society and is labeled as defective or substandard in significant ways. The dominant group assigns roles to the subordinate group that reflect the latter’s devalued status (Tatum).