Health Inequities in Historical Context: A Critical Race Theory Analysis of Diabetes among African Americans and American Indians

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-299
Author(s):  
Felicia M. Mitchell ◽  
Cindy Sangalang ◽  
Stephanie Lechuga-Peña ◽  
Kristina Lopez ◽  
David Beccera
Author(s):  
Lisa Pace Vetter

Frances Wright makes several major contributions to political theory. She served as an essential transitional figure from republicanism to early American socialism. Wright outlined a comprehensive system of reform based on an epistemological method of inquiry. Although Alexis de Tocqueville is credited with anticipating aspects of what would become critical race theory, her devastating critique of slavery in America precedes his by several years and includes elements of critical race theory as well. Unlike Tocqueville, Wright also applies those principles to the plight of American women, which prefigures aspects of critical feminist theory. Wright presents an early version of intersectionality by portraying the oppression of women, the enslavement of African Americans, and the injustice of economic inequality as intertwined through institutionalized corruption.


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