Race & Health Equity Resources

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

 

Video: Muslim Parents' Open Letter To Their Children

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: 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: What Is Anti-Racism?

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Video: Peggy McIntosh: TEDxTimberlaneSchools 2012: How to Recognize Your White Privilege and Use It To Fight Inequality

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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

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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Video: Why the US has so many Filipino Nurses

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 

 

Article: Alford, N. S. (2020, February 9). Why some black Puerto Ricans choose ‘white’ on the census. The New York Times.

 

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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Video: The Myth of the Model Minority

Race & Healthcare
Race & Primary Care

Article: For black women, new online prediction tool could reduce breast cancer deaths. (2021, October 26). Boston University. 

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Article:  Park J, Saha S, Chee B, Taylor J, Beach MC. Physician Use of Stigmatizing Language in Patient Medical Records. JAMA Netw Open. 2021;4(7):e2117052.

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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  

Racial Health Disparities

Article: Radley, D. C., Baumgartner, J. C., Collins, S. R., Zephyrin, L., & Schneider, E. C. (2021). Achieving racial and ethnic equity in U.S. health care: A scorecard of state performance. Commonwealth Fund. 

 

Article: Rae Ellen Bichell, C. A. (2021, June 8). Kidney experts say it’s time to remove race from medical algorithms. Doing so is complicated. Kaiser Health News. 

 

Article: Warner, J. (2021, April 30). Psychiatry confronts its racist past, and tries to make amends. The New York Times. 

 

Article: Daley, J. (2020, July 20). After Surgery, Black Children Are More Likely to Die Than White Children. Scientific American. 

 

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)

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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

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.

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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. 

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Article: Roeder, A. (2019). America Is Failing its Black Mothers. Harvard Public Health. 

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Article: Scheier, R. (2020, September 17). Black women turn to midwives to avoid COVID and ‘feel cared for.’ Kaiser Health News. 

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Article: Liggett, A. (2020, October 8). ‘The day I was reduced to a Black birthing body.’ A doctor reflects on pregnancy. Kuow.Org.

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

Race & Research

Article: Canty, Lucinda PhD, RN, CNM; Nyirati, Christina PhD, RN; Taylor, Valorie MN, RN; Chinn, Peggy L. PhD, RN, FAAN An Overdue Reckoning on Racism in Nursing, AJN, American Journal of Nursing: February 2022 - Volume 122 - Issue 2 - p 26-34

 

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. 

 

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: 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 

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Website: Tribal Epidemiology Centers 

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.

 

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: 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) 

 

Video: When They See Us (2019- Trailer)