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Race & Health Equity Resources

Anti-Racist Resources

Podcast: Brene Brown on Shame and Accountability

Podcast: Code Switch (NPR)

Video: Ibram Kendi TED2020: The difference between being “not racist” and antiracist

Website: Talking About Race (National Museum of African American History & Culture)

For Parents

Video Playlist: Sesame Street in Communities | Racial Justice

Video: Letters for Black Lives (A letter from young Asian Americans to their families)

Video: Black Parents Explain How to Deal With The Police

Video: Muslim Parents' Open Letter To Their Children

Definitions

Website: Understanding Race- Glossary

Implicit Bias

Article: Annual Reviews. (2020, June 4). Curbing implicit bias: what works and what doesn’t. Knowable Magazine: From Annual Reviews.

Book: Banaji, M., & Greenwald, A. (2016). Blindspot (1st ed.). New York: Bantam Books.

Interactive: Implicit Association Test

Video: What Is Bias, and What Can Medical Professionals Do to Address It?- Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

Video: Serious Science: Implicit Association Test - Mahzarin Banaji

Race

Race & Genetics

Website: Eugenics and Scientific Racism

Interview: The Franklin Institute: Does Race Exist?

Video: Dorothy Roberts: TEDMED 2015: The Problem with Race-Based Medicine

Definitions of Race

Article: What Census Calls Us: A Historical Timeline: Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project

Video: Distilled Demographics: What Is Race?: Population Reference Bureau

Race & History

Book: Brodkin, K. (2000). How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race In America (1st ed.). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Book: Guglielmo, J., & Salerno, S. (2003). Are Italians White? How Race Is Made In America (1st ed.). Hoboken: Taylor and Francis.

Book: Ignatiev, N. (2009). How the Irish Became White (1st ed.). New York: Routledge.

Interactive: RACE - History - Race in the U.S.A.: Understandingrace.org

Race & Lived Experience

Book: Iyer, D. (2015). We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future (1st ed.). New York: The New Press.

Interactive: A Conversation on Race- A series of short films about identity in America: The New York Times

Video: The Myth of the Model Minority

Race & Healthcare
Race & Primary Care

Article: Sun, M., Oliwa, T., Peek, M. E., & Tung, E. L. (2022). Negative patient descriptors: Documenting racial bias in the electronic health record. Health Affairs (Project Hope)

Article: Vyas, D. A., Eisenstein, L. G., & Jones, D. S. (2020). Hidden in Plain Sight — Reconsidering the Use of Race Correction in Clinical Algorithms. New England Journal of Medicine, 231–234.

Article: Alsan, Marcella, Owen Garrick, and Grant Graziani. 2019. "Does Diversity Matter for Health? Experimental Evidence from Oakland." American Economic Review, 109 (12): 4071–4111.

Social Determinants of Health

Interactive: Take The ACE Quiz — And Learn What It Does And Doesn't Mean: NPR.org.

Video: Social Determinants of Health (Let’s Learn Public Health)

Video: Nadine Burke Harris: TEDMED 2014: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime.

Racial Health Disparities

Interview: How Racial Bias in Healthcare Kills 80,000 People Each Year. The Leonard Lopate Show: WNYC

Video: Race-Based Inequalities in Health Insurance & Health Outcomes (Brookings Institute)

Video: David R. Williams: TEDMED 2016: How Racism Makes Us Sick

Video: AANCART: The National Center for Reducing Asian Cancer Health Disparities- Dr. Moon Chen Discusses Hepatitis B and Liver Cancer in the Asian American Community.

Race & Maternal Health

Article: Johnson, J. D., Asiodu, I. V., McKenzie, C. P., Tucker, C., Tully, K. P., Bryant, K., Verbiest, S., & Stuebe, A. M. (2019). Racial and ethnic inequities in postpartum pain evaluation and management. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 134(6), 1155–1162.

Article: Tikkanen, R., Gunja, M. Z., FitzGerald, M., & Zephyrin, L. (2020). Maternal mortality and maternity care in the United States compared to 10 other developed countries. Commonwealth Fund.

Video: Miriam Zoila Perez: TEDWomen 2016 How Racism Harms Pregnant Women- and What Can Help

Book: Owens, D. C. (2018). Medical bondage: Race, gender, and the origins of American gynecology. University of Georgia Press.

Race & Research

Book: Washington, H. (2006). Medical apartheid : the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present (1st ed.) (1st ed., pp. 61- 70, 355). New York: Doubleday.

Website: APM Research Lab, Roots Beyond Race, 2019

Website: Center for Alaska Native Health Research

Website: All of Us

Website: Black Women's Health Study

Website: Hispanic Community Health Study/ Study of Latinos (SOL): Cuban, Dominican, Puerto Rican, Mexican, Central American, or South American

Website: MASALA (Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America) Study

Website: Pacific Islands Family Study

Website: RESPOND Study (Research on Prostate Cancer in Men of African Ancestry: Defining the Roles of Genetics, Tumor Markers, and Social Stress)

Website: Strong Heart Study: Native Families in AZ, ND, SD, OK

Website: Tribal Epidemiology Centers

Racism
Definitions of Racism

Video: Cynthia Silva Parker: TEDxSarasota 2014: Racism -- what will it take to end it?.

Video: Camara Jones: TEDxEmory 2014: Allegories on race and racism.

Microaggressions

Article: Sue, D. W., Alsaidi, S., Awad, M. N., Glaeser, E., Calle, C. Z., & Mendez, N. (2019). Disarming racial microaggressions: Microintervention strategies for targets, White allies, and bystanders. American Psychologist, 74(1), 128–142.

Interview: Microaggressions Are A Big Deal: How To Talk Them Out And When To Walk Away (NPR)

Racism & History

Book: Dunbar-Ortiz, R. (2015). An indigenous peoples’ history of the United States. Beacon Press.

Book: Zinn, H. (2003). A people's history of the United States (20th ed.). New York: HarperCollins Publishers.

Interactive: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: Pbs.org.

Interactive: Invasion of America- How the United States Took Over an Eighth of the World: eHistory.org.

Podcast: Seeing White- Scene on Radio.

Podcast: The 1619 Project

Video: 13th (2016- Full Film)

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