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Author Hester, Rebecca J.

Title Embodied Politics : Indigenous Migrant Activism, Cultural Competency, and Health Promotion in California.

Publication Info. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2022.

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Description 1 online resource (209 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Ser.
Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Ser.
Note Description based upon print version of record.
Contents Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Paradoxical Politics of Health Promotion -- Chapter 2. Structural Violence, Migrant Activism, and Indigenous Health -- Chapter 3. The "Mexican Model" of Health: Examining the Travels and Translations of Health Promotion -- Chapter 4. Números, Números, Números: Making Health Programs Accountable -- Chapter 5. Cultural Sensitivity Training and the Cultural Politics of Teaching Tolerance -- Chapter 6. La Lucha Sigue: Migrant Activism and the Ongoing Struggle to Promote Indigenous Health -- Acknowledgments
Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Series Titles
Summary Embodied Politics illuminates the influential force of public health promotion in indigenous migrant communities by examining the Indigenous Health Project (IHP), a culturally and linguistically competent initiative that uses health workshops, health messages, and social programs to mitigate the structural vulnerability of Oaxacan migrants in California. Embodied Politics reconstructs how this initiative came to exist and describes how it operates. At the same time, it points out the conflicts, resistances, and counter-acts that emerge through the IHP's attempts to guide the health behaviors and practices of Triqui and Mixteco migrants. Arguing for a structurally competent approach to migrant health, Embodied Politics shows how efforts to promote indigenous health may actually reinforce the same social and political economic forces, namely structural racism and neoliberalism, that are undermining the health of indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico and the United States.
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Subject Health promotion -- California.
Health promotion.
California.
Indigenous peoples -- Health and hygiene -- California.
Indigenous peoples -- Health and hygiene.
Indigenous peoples -- Medical care -- California.
Indigenous peoples.
Medical care.
Immigrants -- Health and hygiene -- California.
Immigrants -- Health and hygiene.
Immigrants.
Immigrants -- Medical care -- California.
Immigrants -- Medical care.
Public health -- California.
Public health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Hester, Rebecca J. Embodied Politics New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press,c2022 9780813589503
ISBN 0813589525
9780813589527 (electronic book)