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Food Insecurity and Racism
No full textThroughout the United States, food insecurity is a growing issue. Poor or disrupted eating can have severe consequences on mental and physical health. Food insecurity can lead to malnutrition, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, anxiety, depression, and even PTSD. There are various factors that can increase the chances of experiencing food insecurity including socioeconomic status, education levels, household size, gender, race, ethnicity, and disability (Feeding America, n.d.). Certain races, ethnicities, and genders are more likely to experience food insecurity leading to questions about the impact of discrimination. Racism and racial discrimination are experienced throughout various institutions, organizations, and aspects of life in the United States. Racism contributes to unfair treatment in education, jobs, healthcare, criminal justice, and other public arenas, which can create long lasting impacts on individuals lives and health (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, n.d.). Research on the impact of food insecurity and racial discrimination has been explored but not on a large enough scale. Further research on the connection between food insecurity and racial discrimination can provide insight on demographics who are most at risk and ways in which this issue can be mitigated.
Food insecurity is defined as “a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food (USDA, n.d.). In 2023, 47 million people in the United States were food insecure, which is about 1 in 7 households, according to the USDA. Racism is defined as “a form a prejudice that generally includes negative emotional reactions to members of a groups, acceptance of negative stereotypes, and racial discrimination against individuals; in some cases, it can lead to violence” (American Psychological Association, n.d). Discrimination refers to the “differential treatment of different age, gender, racial, ethnic, religious, national, ability identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic, and other groups at the individual level and the institutional/structural level. Discrimination is usually the behavioral manifestation of prejudice and involves negative, hostile, and injurious treatment of members of rejected groups” (American Psychological Association, n.d.). Rates of food insecurity were higher for Black (23.3 percent) and Latinx (21.9 percent) households, both more than double the rate of White non- Latinx households (9.9 percent) (USDA, n.d.). This paper will explore the relationship between racial discrimination and food insecurity
Tech Meets Inclusion: Investigating AI’s Role in Fair and Diverse Hiring
Get PDFBias in recruitment has long hindered progress toward equitable and inclusive workplaces. Traditional hiring practices are often shaped by unconscious human biases, prompting the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) as a potential solution for fairer, data-driven decision-making. However, research shows that AI tools trained on historical data may inherit and even amplify existing biases, raising critical concerns about transparency and fairness (Binns, 2018; Cowgill, Dell’Acqua, & Deng, 2021; Raghavan et al., 2020). This study explores whether AI can truly deliver bias-free hiring or if that remains a myth. By examining current research and industry applications, the study investigates the intersection of AI and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), evaluating how algorithmic hiring affects representation and fairness in the workplace. The primary objective is to assess both the opportunities and limitations of AI in recruitment, offering evidence-based recommendations for organizations to responsibly implement AI while maintaining ethical oversight. Ultimately, the study emphasizes that AI can support DEI goals only when developed and deployed with intentionality, transparency, and continuous human oversight
Librarian Partnerships in DNP Education
Get PDFThis is the sixth article in a new series designed to provide readers with insight into educating nurses about evidence-based decision-making (EBDM). It builds on AJN\u27s award-winning previous series—Evidence-Based Practice, Step by Step and EBP 2.0: Implementing and Sustaining Change (to access both series, go to https://links.lww.com/AJN/A133). This follow-up series on EBDM will address how to teach and facilitate learning about the evidence-based practice (EBP) and quality improvement (QI) processes, and how they impact health care quality. This series is relevant for all nurses interested in EBP and QI, especially DNP faculty and students. The brief case scenario included in each article describes one DNP student\u27s journey
Catholic Studies Newsletter 2025
No full textHighlights: Reflection from a Catholic Studies Minor -- Faculty Profile: Jonathan Delavan -- Laudato Si\u27: Care for our Common Home --Recent faculy Publication
Meaningfulness and Loving: Phenomenology between Theological and Religious Studies Perspectives on Christian Love
No full textMeaning finds its origin in love. That claim is rather unremarkable for Chris- tian thought. One need look no further than the final line of the Divine Comedy and Dante’s praise for the “Love that moves the Sun and the other Stars.”1 But I could have pointed my example toward any number of Christian texts preoc- cupied with love in various genres, languages, cultures, and times: Augustine’s restless heart, Julian’s Shewings as revelations of divine love, Teresa of Avila’s transverberation, the battering three-personed God of Donne’s Holy Sonnets, Kierkegaard’s Works of Love, C.S. Lewis’ The Four Loves ... the list continues ad infinitum. Love fascinates and perplexes Christian thinkers, not least because love is a central theme throughout the Bible and its subsequent interpretation. What does it mean for Jesus to instruct his followers to “love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another” (John 13:34) in order to be known as disciples of the Son of God who “so loved the world” (John 3:16)?2 Love invites interpretation because love calls for meaning
Dramatic Characteristics in Catholic Studies
No full textCharles A. Gillespie, PhD, in his chapter Dramatic Characteristics in Catholic Studies, displays how Catholic studies can fulfill an ideal of Gaudium et Spes in engaging the contemporary human drama through theatre and performance, by applying a theory of Hans Urs von Balthasar (Theo-Drama) to works of Bertolt Brecht (Life of Galileo) and Wole Soyinka (Death and the King’s Horseman) so as to illuminate a practical way forward for students to enter and transform their cultural milieu. The chapter argues that a Catholic studies approach to theatre and performance enacts such an engagement with the drama of the modern world. First, in dialogue with von Balthasar’s Theo-Drama, the chapter explores how theatrical imagery converges an understanding of the modern world in Gaudium et Spes and what it means to read and respond to the signs of the times. Second, the chapter offers two case studies for teaching plays in Catholic studies: how Brecht’s Life of Galileo and Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman open Gaudium et Spes themes from unexpected theatrical angles. Third, the chapter reflects on the importance of artistic praxis within Catholic studies as an invitation to students preparing to enter the culture industry and as a means of integrating embodied action