Building on an everyday clinical practice perspective, the authors provide clear and detailed definitions of concepts and terms related to racism and health. Filled with examples of racism in the health care system and strategies to examine and contest racism, this book will become an essential resource for students and practitioners in the health sciences, the sociology of health, and a variety of other disciplines which investigate racism.

Elizabeth McGibbon is a professor in the Faculty of Science at St. Francis Xavier University. Her publications describe how public policy created Oppression deepens disadvantage and heightens privilege to create and sustain intergenerational health damage. An invited author in eight multiple edition books about critical applications in health, she authored (with Josephine Etowa) the first Canadian book to tackle health care racism: Anti-Racist Health Care Practice.

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Josephine Etowa is Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Professions, at Dalhousie University. Her twenty-year clinical practice history spans international, multicultural, and community development issues.

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"The authors are well grounded in their theoretical and concept knowledge and understanding of anti-racism. Perhaps the most salient mesage that is imparted in this book stresses the existence of racism in the health care system - how racism is manifested and how it impacts the health and well-being of its victims. This relates to a more global theme developed in the final chapter: racism as a stand-alone determinant of health."— “David Este, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary