HEALTH INEQUALITIES AND COGNATE INEQUITIES IN AMERICAN SOCIETY; RACISM, NEOLIBERALISM, AND FREEDOM FROM INDIGNITY

Authors : Faruk HADŽİĆ

Pages : 76-115

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Publication Date : 2022-03-23

Article Type : Review Paper

Abstract :The paper re-examines neoliberal societies` essential characteristics and dignity exposition, arguing that racial injustice represents and inaugurates a systemic culmination. By proceeding with the theoretical framework of neoliberalism`s impact on inequality, the study presents racism and its relevance in health and cognate inequalities and association to human security- freedom from indignity. Racial inequality in health and cognate inequities can not be transformed unless the power of neoliberalism is simultaneously contested. The COVID-19 has exposed the adverse effects of a system that has dominated and disproportionately impacted racialized US communities. It has refined confirmation of long-standing structural variations pointing out inadequate policies, budget discrepancies, jeopardizing human security conceptualization. Thus, opening ground for a neoliberalism reversal within the alternative hybrid order. The phenomenon`s roots and current issues lie in the realization of capitalism, the morphology of the nationstate, and the generative order of colonialism. The unequal access and comprehensive discrimination make a paradoxical paradigm that the affluent US society is less prosperous. With an ideal approach to skepticism and confusion regarding critical race theory, the legal history, doctrinal race development, and the International Convention on Racial Discrimination, a contemporary racial foundation needs to be developed, reaffirmed, improved, and protected to incorporate the democratic content of the US`s principlesThe paper re-examines neoliberal societies` essential characteristics and dignity exposition, arguing that racial injustice represents and inaugurates a systemic culmination. By proceeding with the theoretical framework of neoliberalism`s impact on inequality, the study presents racism and its relevance in health and cognate inequalities and association to human security- freedom from indignity. Racial inequality in health and cognate inequities can not be transformed unless the power of neoliberalism is simultaneously contested. The COVID-19 has exposed the adverse effects of a system that has dominated and disproportionately impacted racialized US communities. It has refined confirmation of long-standing structural variations pointing out inadequate policies, budget discrepancies, jeopardizing human security conceptualization. Thus, opening ground for a neoliberalism reversal within the alternative hybrid order. The phenomenon`s roots and current issues lie in the realization of capitalism, the morphology of the nationstate, and the generative order of colonialism. The unequal access and comprehensive discrimination make a paradoxical paradigm that the affluent US society is less prosperous. With an ideal approach to skepticism and confusion regarding critical race theory, the legal history, doctrinal race development, and the International Convention on Racial Discrimination, a contemporary racial foundation needs to be developed, reaffirmed, improved, and protected to incorporate the democratic content of the US`s principles
Keywords : health inequalities, racism, USA, human security, freedom from indignity, neoliberalism, inequities, human rights

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