Los Angeles Mission College Racism in US Medicine Discussion

Question/prompt: In 2008, when Barack Obama was elected to the U.S. presidency, many media and public figures declared that the United States had become a “post-racial society”, essentially declaring that racism was no longer significant in the United States. Use your essay to challenge this claim — that is discuss the persistence of racism in medicine and society in the United States, past and present — drawing on the readings by Alang et al, Frances-Paredes et al, Benz, and Heintzelman.

Instructions: Your essay(s) should be typed, double-spaced, and a minimum of 800 words (no maximum length). Although grammar and writing style are not explicitly part of the grading criterion, your essays should be read-able and reasonably well-organized. Your citations may be either parenthetically in-text or in footnotes or endnotes. Since your citations will be course materials, you do not need to include a distinct bibliography. Citations should at minimum include the author and year (where applicable), and if quotations are used, the page number. Citations may conform to any disciplinary style you choose (e.g. ASA, APA, MLA), so long as you use one style consistently. There are no other formatting requirements that are not explicitly specified here.