MGH Guides: Power, Privilege, and Positionality: Health at the Intersection of Race and Disability (Summer 2021-Spring 2022)

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Deepening Your Understanding of the Intersectionality of Race and Disability

The following readings expand on the information about power systems identified in the first section of this guide to incorporate disability and think about what this particular intersection means in terms of health care. Specifically:

Intersection of race, ethnicity, and financial impacts
Disabilities as a health disparities population
The intersection of racism and ableism

Race, ethnicity, and disability: Financial impact of systemic inequality and intersectionality
National Disability Institute. (2020, August).
Persons with disabilities as an unrecognized health disparity population
Krahn, Klein Walker, & Correa-De-Araujo. (2015). American Journal of Public Health, 105(Suppl 2), S198-S206. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2014.302182
We can't address disability without addressing race. Here's why.
Brown, L. X. Z. (n. d.) Learn, Play, Thrive: Occupational Therapy.

Opportunities for Reflection

Use these questions to help you process the information you learned in the readings.

What did you learn about health as it relates to disability?
What connections do you see between the power systems described in the section "Learning About Power Systems" and these materials?
These readings have focused on health, disability and race, are there other social categories you think might be important? How and why?
How does Power, Privilege, and Positionality impact or matter in health professional education?