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Please join us for the Food for Thought Talks Series Fall 2024 with the Asian American Studies Undergraduate Research Fellows 2024-2025. 

ASAM Fellow 

Please join us for the Food for Thought Talks Series Fall 2024 with the Asian American Studies Undergraduate Research Fellows 2024-2025. 

ASAM Fellow Grace L. Edwards presents: A Comparative Analysis of Race and Racialization of Pan-ethnic Asians in Healthcare 

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Bio: Grace L. Edwards is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Health and Societies, with a concentration in Race, Gender, and Health, and a minor in Journalistic Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. She is interested in relationships communities of color have with healthcare: ie. relationships with healthcare providers (doctors and nurses), stakeholders (lobbyists), healthcare institutions (hospitals and insurance companies), and systems, as contributors to blights in marginalized communities. In her free time, she loves taking care of her house plants, swimming, going on long walks, and reading. 

Abstract: 

The history of racial discrimination and prejudice in medical education and training for physicians is long and persistent. However, this discrimination is commonly along Black and White racial lines. Given that the racialization of Asian Americans is unique from the racialization of other racial minorities, it is expected that the experiences of Asian Americans in healthcare would also be distinct and yet broad, given the wide range of racialization that is distinguishable based on the different pan-ethnicities. Therefore, my study proposes to compare the ways in which East Asian, South Asian, and Southeast Asian healthcare providers understand race and are racialized in a hospital/clinical setting.