Deconstructing hegemonic epistemologies: An urgent call for anti-racist scholarship for health promotion and Black lives
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2020Author
Corbin, J. Hope
Mweemba, Oliver
Delobelle, Peter
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The year 2020, with its global pandemic, economic
hardship, social isolation and violence has brought profound suffering, overdue learning and important opportunities. One such opportunity is the chance for the field
of health promotion to unflinchingly commit to building
and sustaining efforts to address the inequities so vividly
illuminated by the COVID-19 pandemic—specifically,
inequities experienced by Black communities.
COVID-19 is taking a disproportionate toll on Black
communities the world over. Cities, countries and
regions tracking such data are reporting drastically
higher rates of infection, complications and deaths.
Black people’s experiences of higher prevalence and
more severe outcomes due to COVID-19 are not unlike
the overrepresentation, earlier onset and increased mortality rates experienced by Black people for a plethora of
conditions (including diabetes, hypertension, HIV/AIDS
and respiratory diseases).