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HEALTH CARE FOR ALL? ANTI-LATINO AND ANTI-IMMIGRANT
ATTITUDES, HEALTH CARE POLICY, AND THE LATINO COMMUNITY
by
Jillian Medeiros
____________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS)
August 2009
Copyright 2009 Jillian Medeiros
Object Description
| Title | Health care for all? Anti-Latino and anti-immigrant attitudes, health care policy, and the Latino community |
| Author | Medeiros, Jillian |
| Author email | jamedeir@usc.edu; jillucsd@hotmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Politics & International Relations |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-06-18 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-08-04 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Wong, Janelle S. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Ramirez, Ricardo Crigler, Ann Musso, Juliet |
| Abstract | The main thesis of this dissertation is that whites’ attitudes toward unpopular groups, such as undocumented immigrants, affect their support for “universal,” programs such as government supported health care. More specifically, I argue that the complex racialization of Latinos and the specific ways in which they are stereotyped and constructed as illegal immigrants influences whites’ views of government supported health care. This argument adds to the existing literature on race, policy, and public opinion in two critical ways. First, traditional literature largely focuses upon whites attitudes toward blacks. I contend it is critical to go beyond this black-white dichotomy and examine whites’ attitudes toward other marginalized groups as well, specifically, Latinos and undocumented immigrants. Since Latinos are the largest minority group, and undocumented immigrants continue to be a growing part of American society, I argue it is important to examine white racial attitudes toward these groups also, in order to completely understand the effect of white racial attitudes on public policies. Second, I focus on a policy that Americans view as universal, health care. This contributes to the existing literature on race, and policy because this literature largely focuses on policies that are linked to a certain segment of the population, such as welfare policy which is intended for low-income people. My project shows the continuing important role racial attitudes play in shaping American attitudes toward public policies. |
| Keyword | Latino politics; health disparities; health care; race and ethnicity |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2473 |
| Rights | Medeiros, Jillian |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Medeiros-2932 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume17/etd-Medeiros-2932.pdf |
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| Full text | HEALTH CARE FOR ALL? ANTI-LATINO AND ANTI-IMMIGRANT ATTITUDES, HEALTH CARE POLICY, AND THE LATINO COMMUNITY by Jillian Medeiros ____________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS) August 2009 Copyright 2009 Jillian Medeiros |
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