Call for Papers

Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts

Volume 3, Number 1 (Autumn 2009)
"Race and the Global Politics of Health Inequity"

Papers must be received by December 31, 2008 to be considered for publication in this issue.

Please send manuscript submissions to the editor: race-editor@osu.edu. See Style Guidelines (www.raceethnicity.org/styleguide.html) to prepare your document in accordance with the style guidelines of Race/Ethnicity.

Submission of artwork for the cover that relates to the theme of the issue is welcome. See website at http://www.raceethnicity.org/coverart.html for submission guidelines.

Health outcomes around the world vary dramatically across lines of race, ethnicity, gender, class, place, and nationality. At the national extremes, the residents of countries such as Japan, Singapore, and Andorra can expect to live more than four decades longer than those in Zimbabwe, Liberia, Swaziland and other Sub-Sahara nations. On average, black American males can expect to live nine years fewer than white Americans. We know that the distribution and quality of medicine and health care matter. However, we also know that at the population level factors such as social structure, economic inequality, and globalization have much greater influence on the population and sub-population variations we see.

The first issue of Volume 3 explores the implication of race and ethnicity in health outcomes around the world, with special attention to the social, economic and political foundations of health inequity. We invite submissions that respond to questions that include, but are not limited to, the following:

• How and why do race, ethnicity, gender, class, place and nationality matter in shaping population health?
• In what ways does globalization shape health outcomes?
• What is the relationship between social, political, and/or economic inequalities and the distribution of health outcomes within and across countries and regions?
• What roles do multinational corporations play in the distribution of health outcomes within and across countries?
• What roles are played by governmental and intergovernmental policies, practices, and social ideologies around the production and distribution of medicine, food, weapons, patents, health care infrastructure, and so on?
• What kinds of reforms -- at the international, national, and sub-national levels -- would be needed to significantly reduce the rates of sickness and early death among the world's most marginalized populations?