M4S4 Anti-racist And Decolonial Actions

Question 1

Anti-racist action

Answer 1

-grounded in leadership and accountability
Includes:
-individual transformation
-organizational change
-community change
-movement-building
-anti-discrimination legislation and
-racial equity polices in health, social, legal, economics and political institutions

Question 2

Decolonial and anti-racist practice

Answer 2

-make indigenous self-determination and resurgence a priority
-provides indigenous and racialized people with tools to understand how racism distorts interactions with each other and acts on opportunities for solidarity across different indigenous and racialized peoples
-questions settler privilege for non-indigenous people (racialized and non-racialized)
-equips white people to act against structural racism and settler colonialism
-analyzes ways which anti-racism can reinforce or disrupt ongoing colonial and racist practices and processes

Question 3

Achieving racial equity

Answer 3

-essential to health and well-being
-means that opportunities and outcomes for health and well-being are no longer assigned based on race
-through decolonial and anti-racist approaches, public health can address racism in a meaningful manner based on an analysis of settler colonialism, structural racism, power and privilege. Impact of anti-racism measured by extent to which material and symbolic well-being of racialized people is improved