Race/ Health/ Equity Resources
Anti-Racist Resources
Article: 20+ Asian Allyship Actions for Asians to Show Up for the Black Community Right Now
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: Ally + Accomplice Meditation for Cultivating an Anti-Racist Mindset
Interview: 'Me and White Supremacy' Helps You Do the Work of Dismantling Racism (NPR)
Podcast: Brene Brown with Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Anti-Racist
Podcast: Brene Brown on Shame and Accountability
Podcast: Code Switch (NPR)
Podcast: Racism is an Addiction (In Recovery with Dr. Nzinga Harrison)
Video: How to Respect My Ethnic Name | A guide
Video: Ibram Kendi TED2020: The difference between being “not racist” and antiracist
Video: How to tell someone what they said was racist
Video: Letters for Black Lives (A letter from young Asian Americans to their families)
Video: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Words That Don’t Belong to Everyone
Video: The Problem With Cancel Culture (Ayishat Akanbi)
Website: Understanding And Dismantling Racism: A Book List for White Readers
Website: Talking About Race (National Museum of African American History & Culture)
For Parents
Article: It’s My Job To Raise Children Who Are Not Only Not Racist But Actively Anti-Racist
Article: How Do I Make Sure That I Am Not Raising The Next ‘Amy Cooper’
Book: Kendi, I. X., & Lukashevsky, A. (2020b). Antiracist Baby. Penguin Young Readers Group.
Video: Black Parents Explain How to Deal With The Police
Video: Muslim Parents' Open Letter To Their Children
Website: Books To Teach White Children and Teens How To Undo Racism And White Supremacy
Website: Your Kids Are Not Too Young To Talk About Race: Resource Roundup
Website: Woke Kindergarten
Definitions
Article: McIntosh, P., & Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. (1988). White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (This essay is excerpted from Working Paper 189. “White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming To See Correspondences through Work in Women’s Studies”).
Article: DiAngelo, R. (2011). White Fragility. International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 3(3), 54–70.
Video: Kate Burt, PhD, RDN: Understanding Privilege: A Primer on Privilege in Dietetics & Nutrition
Video: Robin DiAngelo on White Fragility (PBS)
Website: Racism Scale
Website: Understanding Race- Glossary
Implicit Bias
Article: How to Reduce 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: Serious Science: Implicit Association Test - Mahzarin Banaji
Video: Implicit Racial Bias: How Unconscious Attitudes and Beliefs Influence Health Care- Dr. Janice Sabin
Video: The Look
Race
Race & Genetics
Definitions of Race
Interactive: What Census Calls Us: A Historical Timeline: Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project
Video: Distilled Demographics: What Is Race?: Population Reference Bureau
Video: Latino vs Hispanic - Constructing a New America: University of California Television
Video: How Do Perceptions of Race Differ in Brazil and the United States?
Race & History
Article: 'Illicit Cohabitation': Listen To 6 Stunning Moments From Loving V. Virginia: NPR.org.
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
Article: I Am Black. I Am Also White. And I Am Not Done Talking About It
Article: de Oliveira, C. (2017). One Woman’s Fight to Claim Her ‘Blackness’ in Brazil. Foreign Policy
Article: Why Some Black Puerto Ricans Choose "White" on the Census: The New York Times
Interactive: A Conversation on Race- A series of short films about identity in America: The New York Times
Interview: 'Daily Show' Host Writes About Growing Up Biracial In South Africa. Morning Edition: NPR.org
Interview: A letter from young Asian Americans to their families about Black Lives Matter (NPR)
Video: Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
Video: Marley (2012- Trailer)
Race & Equity
Race & Healthcare
Race & Primary Care
Article: Dermatology Has a Problem with Skin Color
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: Torres, N. (2018, August 10). Research: Having a Black Doctor Led Black Men to Receive More Effective Care. Harvard Business Review.
Article: Doctors' Unconscious Bias Affects Quality Of Health Care Services, Research Shows
Article: Genetics and BRCA in Primary Care
Interactive: Breast Cancer Genetics Screening Tool (B-RST)
Video: The Tamale Lesson
Racial Health Disparities
Article: After Surgery, Black Children Are More Likely to Die Than White Children
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: Cancer Health Disparities: National Cancer Institute.
Video: Lisa Cooper TEDxBaltimore 2014: Tackling ethnic health disparities
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: America Is Failing Its Black Mothers
Article: Black Women Turn to Midwives to Avoid COVID and ‘Feel Cared For’
Article: ‘The day I was reduced to a Black birthing body.’ A doctor reflects on pregnancy
Video: Miriam Zoila Perez: TEDWomen 2016 How Racism Harms Pregnant Women- and What Can Help
Video: ‘This is not a new crisis’: How one Midwife is working to change maternal mortality rates
Website: Restore Midwifery Blog: Racial Justice in Midwifery
Book: Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Race & COVID
Article: Why Racism, Not Race, Is a Risk Factor For Dying of COVID-19
Article: High Mortality from COVID-19 among Asian Americans in San Francisco and California
Video: In this six-part series, USA TODAY investigates how racism fuels COVID-19 deaths
Video: COVID-19 may not discriminate based on race — but U.S. health care does
Video: UCLA Prof. Explains Racism’s Role in the Coronavirus Crisis (February 2020)
Video: Latino workers largely affected by COVID19 as essential jobs expose them to risk
Website: The Color of Coronavirus: COVID19 Deaths by Race & Ethnicity in the US
Race & Research
Article: Chae, D. H., Wang, Y., Martz, C. D., Slopen, N., Yip, T., Adler, N. E., Fuller-Rowell, T. E., Lin, J., Matthews, K. A., Brody, G. H., Spears, E. C., Puterman, E., & Epel, E. S. (2020). Racial discrimination and telomere shortening among African Americans: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. Health Psychology, 39(3), 209–219.
Article: Becker, K. (2017, April 24). Too Many Black Women Die From Breast Cancer. Why? | The Brink. Boston University.
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.
Interview: 'Henrietta Lacks': A Donor's Immortal Legacy. Fresh Air: National Public Radio.
Video: Center for Alaska Native Health Research
Website: All of Us
Website: Black Women's Health Study
Website: Center for Alaska Native Health Research
Website: Center for Native and Pacific Health Disparities Research
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: Strong Heart Study: Native Families in AZ, ND, SD, OK
Website: Tribal Epidemiology Centers
Racism
Definitions of Racism
Microaggressions
Article: Guide to responding to Microaggressions (Nadal, K. (2014). A guide to responding to microaggressions. CUNY Forum, 2(1), 71-76)
Article: Responding to Microaggressions and Bias ( Adapted from: Goodman, D. (2011). Promoting Diversity and Social Justice: Educating People from Privileged Groups. New York: Routledge)
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: 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: Interactive Redlining Map Zooms In On America's History Of Discrimination: NPR.org.
Interactive: Invasion of America- How the United States Took Over an Eighth of the World: eHistory.org.
Interview: America's Forgotten History Of Mexican-American 'Repatriation': NPR.org.
Podcast: Seeing White- Scene on Radio.
Podcast: The 1619 Project
Video: How the US stole thousands of Native American children
Video: 13th (2016- Full Film)
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.