Race & Health Equity Resources
Anti-Racist Resources
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
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Podcast: Brene Brown on Shame and Accountability
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Podcast: Code Switch (NPR)
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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: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Words That Don’t Belong to Everyone
Website: Talking About Race (National Museum of African American History & Culture)
For Parents
Book: Kendi, I. X., & Lukashevsky, A. (2020b). Antiracist Baby. Penguin Young Readers Group.
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Video Playlist: Sesame Street in Communities | Racial Justice
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Video: As Early As Five | End Race-Based Hair Discrimination
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Video: Letters for Black Lives (A letter from young Asian Americans to their families)
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Video: Black Parents Explain How to Deal With The Police
Definitions
Article: Harmon, A. (2021, November 1). BIPOC or POC? Equity or equality? The debate over language on the left. The New York Times.
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Article: DiAngelo, R. (2011). White Fragility. International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 3(3), 54–70.
Video: What Is Anti-Racism?
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Video: Kate Burt, PhD, RDN: Understanding Privilege: A Primer on Privilege in Dietetics & Nutrition
Video: Robin DiAngelo on White Fragility (PBS)
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Website: Understanding Race- Glossary
Implicit Bias
Book: Banaji, M., & Greenwald, A. (2016). Blindspot (1st ed.). New York: Bantam Books.
Interactive: Implicit Association Test
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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
Article: Krisch, J. A. (2014, October 13). When racism was a science. The New York Times.
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Interview: The Franklin Institute: Does Race Exist?
Video: Dorothy Roberts: TEDMED 2015: The Problem with Race-Based Medicine
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
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Video: How Do Perceptions of Race Differ in Brazil and the United States?
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
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Interactive: 'Illicit Cohabitation': Listen To 6 Stunning Moments From Loving V. Virginia: NPR.org.
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Race & Lived Experience
Article: Roberts, D. C. (2020). The elephant in the room. Nursing, 50(12), 42–46.
Article: de Oliveira, C. (2017). One Woman’s Fight to Claim Her ‘Blackness’ in Brazil. Foreign Policy
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.
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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
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Podcast: Angela Tucker on Transracial Adoptions
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Video: José Vs. Joe: Who Gets A Job?
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Video: Black Men Have the Shortest Lifespans of Any Americans. This Theory Explains Why.
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Video: Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
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Video: Marley (2012- Trailer)
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Race & Healthcare
Race & Primary Care
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Article: Rabin, R. C. (2020, August 30). Dermatology has a problem with skin color. The New York Times.
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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.
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Video: The Tamale Lesson
Social Determinants of Health
Article: Shonkoff, J. P. (2021). How racism in early life can affect long-term health. Knowable Magazine.
Interactive: Take The ACE Quiz — And Learn What It Does And Doesn't Mean: NPR.org.
Podcast: Health and Housing: Mary Bassett and Nancy Krieger on redlining
Video: 2019 IHI National Forum Keynote Address: Quality, Mercy, and the Moral Determinants of Health
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
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Interview: How Racial Bias in Healthcare Kills 80,000 People Each Year. The Leonard Lopate Show: WNYC
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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
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Article: Roeder, A. (2019). America Is Failing its Black Mothers. Harvard Public Health.
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Video: Miriam Zoila Perez: TEDWomen 2016 How Racism Harms Pregnant Women- and What Can Help
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Video: ‘This is not a new crisis’: How one Midwife is working to change maternal mortality rates
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Race & COVID
Audio: No, the Tuskegee study is not the top reason some Black Americans question the COVID-19 vaccine.
Video: In this six-part series, USA TODAY investigates how racism fuels COVID-19 deaths
Video: UCLA Prof. Explains Racism’s Role in the Coronavirus Crisis (February 2020)
Website: The Color of Coronavirus: COVID19 Deaths by Race & Ethnicity in the US
Race & Research
Interview: 'Henrietta Lacks': A Donor's Immortal Legacy. Fresh Air: National Public Radio.
Website: APM Research Lab, Roots Beyond Race, 2019
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
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Website: Tribal Epidemiology Centers
Racism
Definitions of Racism
Video: The CDC Says Racism Is A Public Health Threat. Here's What It Means
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Video: Cynthia Silva Parker: TEDxSarasota 2014: Racism -- what will it take to end it?.
Video: Camara Jones: TEDxEmory 2014: Allegories on race and racism.
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Video: What are structural, institutional and systemic racism? [ABC7 News]
Microaggressions
Racism & History
Audio: Uprooted: The 1950's plan to erase Indian Country
Audio: 50 Years Ago, Medicare Helped To Desegregate Hospitals
Book: Lepore, J. (2019). These truths: A history of the United States. WW Norton.
Book: Dunbar-Ortiz, R. (2015). An indigenous peoples’ history of the United States. Beacon Press.
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: America’s Caste System Is 400 Years Old. That Doesn’t Change Overnight.
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Podcast: Seeing White- Scene on Radio.
Podcast: The 1619 Project
Video: The Story of ‘White’ and ‘Colored’ Blood
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Video: Slavery in the US, By the Numbers
Video: How the US stole thousands of Native American children
Video: 13th (2016- Full Film)