Building a Race Conscious Research Agenda

• By: Robert Hawkins, MPA, MA, PhD New York University Silver School of Social Work
• January 1st, 2011
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People of color have held a long and often damaging relationship with mental health researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. Throughout the colonized history of the United States, the mental health of Native Americans, Africans, Asians, Latinos, Pacific Islanders, and other groups of color...

Assessing Racial Equity Impact in Mental Health Policymaking: Reflections and Recommendations

• By: Mimi Abramovitz Sandra Bernabei, LCSW Carmen Collado, LCSW-R Robert Hawkins, MPA, MA, PhD Wayne Ho, MPP Eri J. Kim Larry Mandell, MSW Jonathan Morgenstern Gabriel Sayegh Michael Stoller
• January 1st, 2011
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Racism has a long and unique history in the practice and policy of mental health in the United States. In colonial times, for example, it was a common belief that Blacks did not have the intellectual capacity to experience mental illness. In later periods runaway slaves were diagnosed with...