Addressing the Absence of African American Men in Chicago-Area Medical Schools

If we – and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others – do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world." ~James Baldwin The Problem This paper was developed in response to a. [...] Generations of systematic pushout from schools and into prison systems, for example, has a large role to play in the lack of Black male access to Page 2 • Addressing the Absence of African American Men in Chicago Area Medical Schools careers in the field of medicine (Toldson 2008; Toldson 2011). [...] A data-driven approach that also listens to the people most affected by disparities in medical education leads to the conclusion Page 7 • Addressing the Absence of African American Men in Chicago Area Medical Schools that the proportion of Black students in medical school ought to match the proportion of Black people who may need health care in the population. [...] training should also be available to college and high school counselors and post-secondary success Funder collaborations: Unite funders to teams (every CPS school must have a team in develop a collective strategy to address the place) who research shows have lower lack of African American men and low expectations of students of color, and more representation of men of color in local alarming, whit. [...] Page 13 • Addressing the Absence of African American Men in Chicago Area Medical Schools Addressing the serious problem of the lack of male African American medical students in the Chicago-area cannot wait.