https://www.raceandmedicine.com/biology daily 0.75 2020-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589847401091-19HRO2RO9K06PE7KLL46/Race+debunking+book.jpg Biology Race has provided the rationale and excuse for some of the worst atrocities in human history. Yet, according to many biologists, physical anthropologists, and geneticists, there is no valid scientific justification for the concept of race. To be more precise, although there is clearly some physical basis for the variations that underlie perceptions of race, clear boundaries among “races” remain highly elusive from a purely biological standpoint. Differences among human populations that people intuitively view as “racial” are not only superficial but are also of astonishingly recent origin. In Race? Debunking a Scientific Myth, physical anthropologist Ian Tattersall and geneticist Rob DeSalle, both senior scholars from the American Museum of Natural History, explain what human races actually are—and are not—and place them within the wider perspective of natural diversity. They explain that the relative isolation of local populations of the newly evolved human species during the last Ice Age—when Homo sapiens was spreading across the world from an African point of origin—has now begun to reverse itself, as differentiated human populations come back into contact and interbreed. The overarching message of Race? Debunking a Scientific Myth is that scientifically speaking, there is nothing special about racial variation within the human species. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1587602469587-63HGZYXR4H6NZHOK28N6/how-real-is-race.jpg Biology How Real is Race? What is biological fact, what is fiction, and where does culture enter? What do we mean by a “colorblind” or “postracial” society, or when we say that race is a “social construction”? If race is an invention, can we eliminate it? This book, now in its second edition, employs an activity-oriented approach to address these questions and engage readers in unraveling—and rethinking—the contradictory messages we so often hear about race. The authors systematically cover the myth of race as biology and the reality of race as a cultural invention, drawing on biocultural and cross-cultural perspectives. They then extend the discussion to hot-button issues that arise in tandem with the concept of race, such as educational inequalities; slurs and racialized labels; and interracial relationships. In so doing, they shed light on the intricate, dynamic interplay among race, culture, and biology. For an online supplement to How Real Is Race? Second Edition, click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589848412091-U62631NUW47Y8C1NQVXN/Race+are+we+so+different.jpg Biology Check out this 5 minute video from the American Anthropological Association (AAA) which briefly reviews the history of race as a concept. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1587602346357-CPDEQ22DKEBMZ384VLWY/Is%2BScience%2BRacist.jpg Biology Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues―chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb―and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the basic natural inequality of races. The eugenic science of the early twentieth century and the commodified genomic science of today are unified by the mistaken belief that human races are naturalistic categories. Yet their boundaries are founded neither in biology nor in genetics and, not being a formal scientific concept, race is largely not accessible to the scientist. As Marks argues, race can only be grasped through the humanities: historically, experientially, politically. In Is Science Racist?, Jonathan Marks explores the persistence and legacy of scientific racism, which misappropriates the authority of science and undermines it by converting it into a social weapon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589847864581-VOYTM4C74VGU241V48FZ/The+Myth+of+Race+book.jpg Biology The Myth of Race deals concisely with a wide range of topics, from how the concept of race differs in different cultures and race relations in the United States, to IQ tests and the census. It draws on scientific knowledge to topple a series of myths that pass as facts, correct false assumptions, and clarify cultural misunderstandings about the highly charged topic of race. The book demonstrates that the apparently straightforward concept of race is actually a confused mixture of two different concepts; and the confusion often leads to miscommunication. The first concept, biological race, simply doesn’t exist in the human species. Instead, what exists is gradual variation in what people look like (e.g., skin color and facial features) and in their genes, as you travel around the planet--with more distant populations appearing more different than closer ones. If you travel in different directions, the populations look different in different ways. The second concept, social race, is a set of cultural categories for labeling people based on how their ancestors were classified, selected aspects of what they look like, or various combinations of both. These sets of categories vary widely from one culture to another. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1554603285317-6OCANLPE61K2MGMXMHLM/Native+american+DNA.jpeg Biology In Native American DNA, Kim TallBear shows how DNA testing is a powerful—and problematic—scientific process that is useful in determining close biological relatives. But tribal membership is a legal category that has developed in dependence on certain social understandings and historical contexts, a set of concepts that entangles genetic information in a web of family relations, reservation histories, tribal rules, and government regulations. At a larger level, TallBear asserts, the “markers” that are identified and applied to specific groups such as Native American tribes bear the imprints of the cultural, racial, ethnic, national, and even tribal misinterpretations of the humans who study them. TallBear notes that ideas about racial science, which informed white definitions of tribes in the nineteenth century, are unfortunately being revived in twenty-first-century laboratories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1554603339189-FA9NUHR26AZQGTHJU166/image-asset.jpeg Biology A decade after the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category written in our genes. In Fatal Invention, leading legal scholar and social critic Dorothy Roberts argues that America is once again at the brink of a virulent outbreak of classifying populations by race. By searching for differences at the molecular level, a new racial science is obscuring racism in our society and legitimizing state brutality against communities of color at a time when America claims to be post-racial. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1587602180489-M5B1QVUCF03VU6AOP0U2/Superior+return+of+race+science.jpg Biology Superior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences in the world of science. Dissecting the statements and work of contemporary scientists studying human biodiversity, most of whom claim to be just following the data, Angela Saini shows us how, again and again, even mainstream scientists cling to the idea that race is biologically real. As our understanding of complex traits like intelligence, and the effects of environmental and cultural influences on human beings, from the molecular level on up, grows, the hope of finding simple genetic differences between “races”—to explain differing rates of disease, to explain poverty or test scores, or to justify cultural assumptions—stubbornly persists. Superior is a rigorous, much-needed examination of the insidious and destructive nature of race science—and a powerful reminder that, biologically, we are all far more alike than different. This Nature article reviews the book and provides an overview. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589847165952-SP6MMNSX08SND222CIGH/Everyone+is+African+book.jpg Biology What does science say about race? In Everyone is African a distinguished research geneticist presents abundant evidence showing that traditional notions about distinct racial differences have little scientific foundation.In short, racism is not just morally wrong; it has no basis in fact.The author lucidly describes in detail the factors that have led to the current scientific consensus about race. Both geneticists and anthropologists now generally agree that the human species originated in sub-Saharan Africa and darkly pigmented skin was the ancestral state of humanity. Moreover, worldwide human diversity is so complex that discrete races cannot be genetically defined. And for individuals, ancestry is more scientifically meaningful than race.Separate chapters are devoted to controversial topics: skin color and the scientific reasons for the differences; why ancestry is more important to individual health than race; intelligence and human diversity; and evolutionary perspectives on the persistence of racism.This is an enlightening book that goes a long way toward dispelling the irrational notions at the heart of racism. https://www.raceandmedicine.com/home daily 1.0 2024-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1556819654854-BTAP9FO40HARFVQGU6JZ/hospital+hallway Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/573a04372fe131630fd25157/1469729752911-UFETSG39XPIFRSHOM0XH/hero_pattern.png Home https://www.raceandmedicine.com/what-is-caucusing daily 0.75 2020-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1587587709983-TNR217UH6XFL2EZSEU5V/chairs.jpg What is Caucusing? https://www.raceandmedicine.com/hypertension daily 0.75 2020-06-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1556818534712-TCPA8QU8Q2GHAIRR2JUI/blood+pressure.jpg Hypertension https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1591046988411-J5R51JLNCHVROWB2NCLU/Screen+Shot+2020-06-01+at+2.28.49+PM.png Hypertension https://www.raceandmedicine.com/reproduction daily 0.75 2020-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1569122608952-KQHTKSTS8EYUZUJ3JKY4/Unfit+image.jpg The origins of reproductive justice Radiolab podcast episode from July 17, 2019, “G: Unfit.” While this episode unfortunately doesn’t address how eugenics was racialized, it does talk about how forced sterilization has been used in the US and shows how this history isn’t all in the past. When a law student named Mark Bold came across a Supreme Court decision from the 1920s that allowed for the forced sterilization of people deemed “unfit,” he was shocked to discover that it had never been overturned. His law professors told him the case, Buck v Bell, was nothing to worry about, that the ruling was in a kind of legal limbo and could never be used against people. But he didn’t buy it. In this episode we follow Mark on a journey to one of the darkest consequences of humanity’s attempts to measure the human mind and put people in boxes, following him through history, science fiction and a version of eugenics that’s still very much alive today, and watch as he crusades to restore a dash of moral order to the universe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1588968562969-6J56QHJT1Y9O5NJE62O4/nejmp1907437_f1.jpeg The origins of reproductive justice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1590984248880-3VFXZOK7807Z93TT41A0/undivided+rights+book.jpg The origins of reproductive justice Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women of color organizing for reproductive justice—on their own behalf. Using historical research, original organizational case studies, and personal interviews, the authors illuminate how women of color have led the fight to control their own bodies and reproductive destinies. Undivided Rights shows how women of color—-starting within their own Latina, African American, Native American, and Asian American communities—have resisted coercion of their reproductive abilities. Projected against the backdrop of the mainstream pro-choice movement and radical right agendas, these dynamic case studies feature the groundbreaking work being done by health and reproductive rights organizations led by women-of-color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1554587986521-B67V24GR37G8OV4O0S7P/Reproductive+Justice+thumbnail.jpg The origins of reproductive justice Reproductive Justice is a first-of-its-kind primer that provides a comprehensive yet succinct description of the field. Written by two legendary scholar-activists, Reproductive Justice introduces students to an intersectional analysis of race, class, and gender politics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1590980330799-DW910ZT9FHINJS25QJTB/medical+bondage+book.jpg The origins of reproductive justice In Medical Bondage, Cooper Owens examines a wide range of scientific literature and less formal communications in which gynecologists created and disseminated medical fictions about their patients, such as their belief that black enslaved women could withstand pain better than white "ladies." Even as they were advancing medicine, these doctors were legitimizing, for decades to come, groundless theories related to whiteness and blackness, men and women, and the inferiority of other races or nationalities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1590984530288-2QU9VOUCIC9VCX5HQQR1/repro+rights+and+wrongs+book.jpg The origins of reproductive justice With a new prologue by the author, Reproductive Rights and Wrongs is an important gateway into the controversial topic of population for students, activists, researchers and policymakers. It challenges the myth of overpopulation, uncovering the deeper roots of poverty, environmental degradation and gender inequalities. With vivid case studies, it explores how population control programs came to be promoted by powerful governments, foundations and international agencies as an instrument of Cold War development and security policy. Mainly targeting poor women, these programs were designed to drive down birth rates as rapidly and cheaply as possible, with coercion often a matter of course. In the war on population growth, birth control was deployed as a weapon, rather than as a tool of reproductive choice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1554587818963-5HQFZNTFKXRKXVNQLJMK/Killing+the+Black+Body.jpg The origins of reproductive justice In Killing the Black Body, Northwestern University professor Dorothy Roberts exposes America's systemic abuse of Black women's bodies, from slave masters' economic stake in bonded women's fertility to government programs that coerced thousands of poor Black women into being sterilized as late as the 1970s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1572102063013-Y81UWQ2QRJVUSE3E3VI8/Conquest.jpg The origins of reproductive justice Prominent Native American studies scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the connections between different forms of violence—perpetrated by the state and by society at large—and documents their impact on Native women in her book Conquest. In this incisive and stunningly comprehensive work, we learn how the proliferation of sexual violence as a normalized feature of modern Euro-American patriarchies is inseparable from violence against Indigenous women, and women of color. https://www.raceandmedicine.com/racism daily 0.75 2020-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589846593542-26495E75PIHF3XKPE0DS/Just+Medicine+book.jpg Racism & Health Over 84,000 black and brown lives are needlessly lost each year due to health disparities: the unfair, unjust, and avoidable differences between the quality and quantity of health care provided to Americans who are members of racial and ethnic minorities and care provided to whites. Health disparities have remained stubbornly entrenched in the American health care system—and in Just Medicine Dayna Bowen Matthew finds that they principally arise from unconscious racial and ethnic biases held by physicians, institutional providers, and their patients. Implicit bias is the single most important determinant of health and health care disparities. Because we have missed this fact, the money we spend on training providers to become culturally competent, expanding wellness education programs and community health centers, and even expanding access to health insurance will have only a modest effect on reducing health disparities. We will continue to utterly fail in the effort to eradicate health disparities unless we enact strong, evidence-based legal remedies that accurately address implicit and unintentional forms of discrimination, to replace the weak, tepid, and largely irrelevant legal remedies currently available. Our continued failure to fashion an effective response that purges the effects of implicit bias from American health care, Matthew argues, is unjust and morally untenable. In this book, she unites medical, neuroscience, psychology, and sociology research on implicit bias and health disparities with her own expertise in civil rights and constitutional law. In a time when the health of the entire nation is at risk, it is essential to confront the issues keeping the health care system from providing equal treatment to all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1588640947857-1YG0KNVKQVHS9ERHXN6C/hospital+beds.jpg Racism & Health Mike LaCon/Flickr.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1588635814081-A034UBBQLOVODQWNVO9H/Small+group.jpeg Racism & Health https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1591152081642-01A2ODGGTF900Z0P6AQB/Medical-Apartheid%2Bbook.jpg Racism & Health Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge—a tradition that continues today within some black populations. It reveals how blacks have historically been prey to grave-robbing as well as unauthorized autopsies and dissections. Moving into the twentieth century, it shows how the pseudoscience of eugenics and social Darwinism was used to justify experimental exploitation and shoddy medical treatment of blacks, and the view that they were biologically inferior, oversexed, and unfit for adult responsibilities. Shocking new details about the government’s notorious Tuskegee experiment are revealed, as are similar, less-well-known medical atrocities conducted by the government, the armed forces, prisons, and private institutions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589846474639-UPKQ6WTP93UG5KO8OCHZ/Black+%26+Blue.jpg Racism & Health Black & Blue is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients. The standard studies of medical racism examine past medical abuses of black people and do not address the racially motivated thinking and behaviors of physicians practicing medicine today. Black & Blue penetrates the physician’s private sphere where racial fantasies and misinformation distort diagnoses and treatments. Doctors have always absorbed the racial stereotypes and folkloric beliefs about racial differences that permeate the general population. Within the world of medicine this racial folklore has infiltrated all of the medical sub-disciplines, from cardiology to gynecology to psychiatry. Doctors have thus imposed white or black racial identities upon every organ system of the human body, along with racial interpretations of black children, the black elderly, the black athlete, black musicality, black pain thresholds, and other aspects of black minds and bodies. The American medical establishment does not readily absorb either historical or current information about medical racism. For this reason, racial enlightenment will not reach medical schools until the current race-aversive curricula include new historical and sociological perspectives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1591152312463-LZO5QSF7Y44XN1383FP8/Henrietta+Lacks.jpg Racism & Health Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine: The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, which are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave. Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality” until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family—past and present—is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589753775499-BD7GGINP26INT72TMOJ9/The+Cost+of+Racism+for+People+of+Color+book.gif Racism & Health In The Cost of Racism for People of Color, leading scholars examine the felt experience of being the target of racism, with a focus on mental and physical health — as the result of particular racist encounters as well as across the lifespan — in addition to group contexts such as education and the workforce. Authors examine the subtle but persistent links between everyday microaggressions and historical racial trauma, and offer practical tools to assess and measure perceived racial discrimination. They describe compelling new interventions for individuals and communities, and offer social policy prescriptions to promote healing and help dismantle institutional discrimination. With its skillful synthesis of voices and approaches, this work should appeal to a broad range of scholars and practitioners in clinical psychology, as well as ethnic studies, sociology, and public and allied health. https://www.raceandmedicine.com/hiring daily 0.75 2020-09-17 https://www.raceandmedicine.com/white-provider-resources daily 0.75 2020-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589404932831-EMGCSUD6EISLZ55JETS5/Moving+Diversity+Forward+book.jpg Resources for White Providers In a world where little or big mistakes with race can have us prone to retrenchment, Moving Diversity Forward: How To Go From Well-Meaning To Well-Doing, gets the forces of progression moving again, out of polite awkwardness into a new and rewarding effectiveness. This book offers a blend of accessible theory and tools for practical application to benefit any reader willing to learn about diversity. "If you believe that your organization has done everything it can to enhance its diversity, and if you are still frustrated at how little progress you have made, Moving Diversity Forward is for you. It is an instructive read for all of those who wish to live and work in a multi-cultural world where everyone has a fair chance to succeed and contribute." - Frank P. Barron, Chief Legal Officer, Morgan Stanley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589405426418-BWK9LGE7CMYAYIHTDZSJ/Witnessing+Whiteness+book.jpg Resources for White Providers Witnessing Whiteness invites readers to consider what it means to be white, describes and critiques strategies used to avoid race issues, and identifies the detrimental effect of avoiding race on cross-race collaborations. The author illustrates how racial discomfort leads white people toward poor relationships with people of color. Questioning the implications our history has for personal lives and social institutions, the book considers political, economic, socio-cultural, and legal histories that shaped the meanings associated with whiteness. Drawing on dialogue with well-known figures within education, race, and multicultural work, the book offers intimate, personal stories of cross-race friendships that address both how a deep understanding of whiteness supports cross-race collaboration and the long-term nature of the work of excising racism from the deep psyche. Concluding chapters offer practical information on building knowledge, skills, capacities, and communities that support anti-racism practices, a hopeful look at our collective future, and a discussion of how to create a culture of witnesses who support allies for social and racial justice. Free discussion guide here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589403336419-181DONGEE22I1P9FNDW2/Unnatural+causes.jpg Resources for White Providers Unnatural Causes is a four-hour documentary series that for the first time on television sounds the alarm about our huge and disturbing socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in health – and searches for their root causes. But those causes are not what we might expect. While we pour more money into drugs, miracle diets, and new medical technologies – and focus prevention efforts solely on what individuals can do to be healthier – Unnatural Causes crisscrosses the country investigating the growing body of evidence that suggests there is more to our health than bad habits and unlucky genes. In doing so, it circles in on a slow killer in plain view: The social circumstances in which we are born, live, and work can actually get under our skin and put us at risk for stroke, heart disease, asthma, hypertension, diabetes, kidney disease, and even cancer. Note that the series does not simply illustrate differential health care access and treatment, but why some populations get sicker more often in the first place, i.e., the role of inequality, racism, poverty, segregation, and neglect in breeding disease and despair. Free to watch for many library members, on some PBS stations, or you can buy the videos to watch online or at home. Free discussion guide here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589402796926-2KE02SEYT90JGKA9RQJA/What+does+it+mean+to+be+white.jpg Resources for White Providers What does it mean to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless yet is deeply divided by race? In the face of pervasive racial inequality and segregation, most whites cannot answer that question. Robin DiAngelo argues that a number of factors make this question difficult for whites miseducation about what racism is; ideologies such as individualism and colorblindness; defensiveness; and a need to protect (rather than expand) our worldviews. These factors contribute to what she terms white racial illiteracy. Speaking as a white person to other white people, Dr. DiAngelo clearly and compellingly takes readers through an analysis of white socialization. She describes how race shapes the lives of white people, explains what makes racism so hard for whites to see, identifies common white racial patterns, and speaks back to popular white narratives that work to deny racism. Written as an accessible introduction to white identity from an anti-racist framework, What Does It Mean To Be White? is an invaluable resource for members of diversity and anti-racism programs and study groups and students of sociology, psychology, education, and other disciplines. Chapter 12’s discussion of “Common Patterns of Well-Intentioned White People” is brutal and spot-on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1591544454229-B4ZP5WYR050S1HXPKZAH/stamped-from-the-beginning+book.jpg Resources for White Providers Some Americans cling desperately to the myth that we are living in a post-racial society, that the election of the first Black president spelled the doom of racism. In fact, racist thought is alive and well in America - more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, if we have any hope of grappling with this stark reality, we must first understand how racist ideas were developed, disseminated, and enshrined in American society. Contrary to popular conceptions, racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred. Instead, they were devised and honed by some of the most brilliant minds of each era. These intellectuals used their brilliance to justify and rationalize deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and the nation’s racial disparities in everything from wealth to health. And while racist ideas are easily produced and easily consumed, they can also be discredited. In shedding much-needed light on the murky history of racist ideas, Stamped from the Beginning offers us the tools we need to expose them—and in the process, gives us reason to hope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589403955648-B8XZ4LQGMVDSUEDPCB81/Race+-+The+Power+of+an+Illusion.jpg Resources for White Providers The division of the world's peoples into distinct groups - "red," "black," "white" or "yellow" peoples - has became so deeply imbedded in our psyches, so widely accepted, many would promptly dismiss as crazy any suggestion of its falsity. Yet, that's exactly what this provocative, new three-hour series by California Newsreel claims. Race - The Power of an Illusion questions the very idea of race as innate biology, suggesting that a belief in inborn racial difference is no more sound than believing that the sun revolves around the earth. Yet race still matters. Just because race doesn't exist in biology doesn't mean it isn't very real, helping shape life chances and opportunities. Free to watch for many library members, or you can buy or rent the videos to watch online or at home. Free discussion guides here and here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1591544417158-3Z1Q0M38JFBBLIG9IXHJ/history+of+white+people.jpg Resources for White Providers The History of White People is a mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of notions of white race—not merely a skin color but also a signal of power, prestige, and beauty to be withheld and granted selectively. Ever since the Enlightenment, race theory and its inevitable partner, racism, have followed a crooked road, constructed by dominant peoples to justify their domination of others. Filling a huge gap in historical literature that long focused on the non-white, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, tracing not only the invention of the idea of race but also the frequent worship of “whiteness” for economic, social, scientific, and political ends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1591544592057-UEXL7IAINCWAHEZVVZS5/slavery+by+another+name.jpg Resources for White Providers In this groundbreaking historical expose, Slavery by Another Name brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history—an “Age of Neoslavery” that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Douglas A. Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter. By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals the stories of those who fought unsuccessfully against the re-emergence of human labor trafficking, the companies that profited most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today. This book was also made into a 90 minute documentary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1591046047724-LGX5P2NPL9KIO33I629O/Screen+Shot+2020-06-01+at+2.04.48+PM.png Resources for White Providers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1591544390942-M47R8HHFLBP5T6LO18UP/white+rage+book.jpg Resources for White Providers Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate, relentless rollback of their gains. The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with the Black Codes and Jim Crow; the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of public schools throughout the South; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 triggered a coded response, the so-called Southern Strategy and the War on Drugs that disenfranchised millions of African Americans. Carefully linking these and other historical flashpoints, White Rage pulls back the veil that has long covered actions made in the name of democracy, fiscal responsibility, or protection against fraud, rendering visible the long lineage of white rage. Compelling and dramatic in the unimpeachable history it relates, White Rage will add an important new dimension to the national conversation about race in America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1591544496888-MM08ZN7EIG6A48CT09WN/other+slavery+book.jpg Resources for White Providers Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in his myth-shattering The Other Slavery, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. There was no abolitionist movement to protect the tens of thousands of Natives who were kidnapped and enslaved by the conquistadors. Reséndez builds the incisive case that it was mass slavery—more than epidemics—that decimated Indian populations across North America. Through riveting new evidence, including testimonies of courageous priests, rapacious merchants, and Indian captives, The Other Slavery reveals nothing less than a key missing piece of American history. For over two centuries we have fought over, abolished, and tried to come to grips with African American slavery. It is time for the West to confront an entirely separate, equally devastating enslavement we have long failed truly to see. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1555465135361-8IMMNEW34N6MMNIRXQQ1/image-asset.jpeg Resources for White Providers White Fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. These moves include the outward display of emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence, and leaving the stress-inducing situation. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium. This book explicates the dynamics of White Fragility and how we might build our capacity in the on-going work towards racial justice. Check out the free reader’s guide here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1591137356190-XECW1ZNUCUJSOVX2V50O/concise%2Bhistory%2Bof%2Bblack-white.jpg Resources for White Providers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1591547577181-7D8Y0JWLB5FZ7A1OP9HQ/african+american+and+latinx+history.jpg Resources for White Providers An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the “Global South” was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely taught formulations like “manifest destiny” and “Jacksonian democracy,” and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms US history into one of the working class organizing against imperialism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1555465960803-AAW9TB6HDLBC977B95IN/Right+hand+of+privilege Resources for White Providers The Right Hand of Privilege Many of us struggle to understand the concept of privilege, the idea that some individuals receive unearned advantages in life solely based on being a member of certain social identity groups. Some of us strongly resist the idea we have unearned privilege. In the United States many believe that if you work hard for the things you want, you will be able to get them. We are taught individual effort and determination is all you need in life to success. This essay helps to reframe the idea of privilege and it’s impact on outcomes through a less controversial lens than race or sex/gender. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589405234094-CI11E4MKLT16WIUG2T79/Diversity%2C+Equity%2C+and+Inclusion+book.jpg Resources for White Providers Facilitating conversations about race often involves tension, as both the facilitators and participants bring emotional experiences and their deeply held values and beliefs into the room. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Strategies for Facilitating Conversations on Race guides facilitators through a process of becoming comfortable with the discomfort in leading conversations about racism, privilege and power. Written by the co-founders of Cultures Connecting, this book walks you through the important steps to create a foundation where participants feel brave enough to take risks and share their stories and perspectives. It guides you through strategies for engaging participants in courageous conversations with one another in ways that don’t shame and blame people into understanding. This book is a useful tool for individuals, organizations and college professors who are interested in learning techniques for guiding their audience through dialogue whereby they become open to listening to one another for understanding rather than holding on to old beliefs and maintaining a posture of defense. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1591545094634-HDGRVE7QWKXNYZ4YZK25/dying+of+whiteness.jpg Resources for White Providers With the rise of the Tea Party and the election of Donald Trump, many middle- and lower-income white Americans threw their support behind conservative politicians who pledged to make life great again for people like them. But as Dying of Whiteness shows, the right-wing policies that resulted from this white backlash put these voters’ very health at risk—and in the end, threaten everyone’s well-being. Physician and sociologist Jonathan M. Metzl travels across America’s heartland seeking to better understand the politics of racial resentment and its impact on public health. Interviewing a range of Americans, he uncovers how racial anxieties led to the repeal of gun control laws in Missouri, stymied the Affordable Care Act in Tennessee, and fueled massive cuts to schools and social services in Kansas. Although such measures promised to restore greatness to white America, Metzl’s systematic analysis of health data dramatically reveals they did just the opposite: these policies made life sicker, harder, and shorter in the very populations they purported to aid. Thus, white gun suicides soared, life expectancies fell, and school dropout rates rose. Powerful, searing, and sobering, Dying of Whiteness ultimately demonstrates just how much white America would benefit by emphasizing cooperation, rather than by chasing false promises of supremacy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1591547441510-GWB4K1KVWORSMMERZE71/indigenous+people%27s+history.jpg Resources for White Providers Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them.” https://www.raceandmedicine.com/white-providers daily 0.75 2020-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1556818291324-O76SD3JRCFOSJK24SW2V/sunrise.jpg White Providers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589560445063-F5SD1DU77XX4I4JEJQAO/Minority+tax.gif White Providers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589393324025-AD31BP6ZW15Y7UAYDD79/White%2BPeople.%2BDo%2BSomething..jpg White Providers https://www.raceandmedicine.com/mental-health daily 0.75 2020-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589752355911-2WMEPYNYTA0NZLPIBSGV/Screen+Shot+2020-05-17+at+2.44.29+PM.png Mental Health Institutional Racism in Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology examines the deep roots of racism in the mental health system. Suman Fernando weaves the histories of racial discourse and clinical practice into a narrative of power, knowledge, and black suffering in an ostensibly progressive and scientifically grounded system. Drawing on a lifetime of experience as a practicing psychiatrist, he examines how the system has shifted in response to new forms of racism which have emerged since the 1960s, highlighting the widespread pathologization of black people, the impact of Islamophobia on clinical practice after 9/11, and various struggles to reform. Engaging and accessible, this book makes a compelling case for the entrenchment of racism across all aspects of psychiatry and clinical psychology, and calls for a paradigm shift in both theory and practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589753984179-GH9MUVN1UI62FYWT05NM/Cultural+Diversity%2C+Mental+Health+and+Psychiatry+book.jpg Mental Health 'Black and minority ethnic communities lack confidence in mental health services', according to the National Service Framework for Mental Health published by the Department of Health in 1999. Cultural Diversity, Mental Health and Psychiatry examines how and why this situation has come about, and makes specific practical, often surprising, suggestions for changing the status quo. The book reflects on the current situation in light of the author’s personal experience, academic research and anecdotal reports. He weaves together themes of immense importance for the future of psychiatry and mental health services in a multi-cultural setting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589752301411-5V0B80WOR2VT5IHEIEI5/Screen+Shot+2020-05-17+at+2.49.09+PM.png Mental Health Racism and Psychiatry addresses the unique sociocultural and historical systems of oppression that have alienated African-American and other racial minority patients within the mental healthcare system. This text aims to build a novel didactic curriculum addressing racism, justice, and community mental health as these issues intersect clinical practice. Unlike any other resource, this guide moves beyond an exploration of the problem of racism and its detrimental effects, to a practical, solution-oriented discussion of how to understand and approach the mental health consequences with a lens and sensitivity for contemporary justice issues. After establishing the historical context of racism within organized medicine and psychiatry, the text boldly examines contemporary issues, including clinical biases in diagnosis and treatment, addiction and incarceration, and perspectives on providing psychotherapy to racial minorities. The text concludes with chapters covering training and medical education within this sphere, approaches to supporting patients coping with racism and discrimination, and strategies for changing institutional practices in mental healthcare. https://www.raceandmedicine.com/pregnancy daily 0.75 2020-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1590981732231-0UY43IH3D073BPD9PSD0/Birthing+Justice+book.jpg Maternal & Infant Health There is a global crisis in maternal health care for black women. In the United States, black women are over three times more likely to perish from pregnancy-related complications than white women; their babies are half as likely to survive the first year. Many black women experience policing, coercion, and disempowerment during pregnancy and childbirth and are disconnected from alternative birthing traditions. Birthing Justice places black women's voices at the center of the debate on what should be done to fix the broken maternity system and foregrounds black women's agency in the emerging birth justice movement. Mixing scholarly, activist, and personal perspectives, the book shows readers how they too can change lives, one birth at a time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1590722791790-GAB0B3OBEP6JJUKJI9HF/reproductive+injustice+book.jpg Maternal & Infant Health Black women have higher rates of premature birth than other women in America. This cannot be simply explained by economic factors, with poorer women lacking resources or access to care. Even professional, middle-class black women are at a much higher risk of premature birth than low-income white women in the United States. In Reproductive Injustice, Dána-Ain Davis looks into this phenomenon, placing racial differences in birth outcomes into a historical context, revealing that ideas about reproduction and race today have been influenced by the legacy of ideas which developed during the era of slavery. The book argues not only that medical racism persists and must be considered when examining adverse outcomes—as well as upsetting experiences for parents—but also that NICUs and life-saving technologies should not be the only strategies for improving the outcomes for black pregnant women and their babies. Davis makes the case for other avenues, such as community-based birthing projects, doulas, and midwives, that support women during pregnancy and labor are just as important and effective in avoiding premature births and mortality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1555724921018-20L1FPBG1FB02L6NMETO/Getty%2FJose+Luis+Peleaz+Inc Maternal & Infant Health Getty/Jose Luis Peleaz Inc https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1590722579714-GGKOF6DQ7SG1CI6GVC7Y/reproducing+race+book.jpg Maternal & Infant Health Reproducing Race, an ethnography of pregnancy and birth at a large New York City public hospital, explores the role of race in the medical setting. Khiara M. Bridges investigates how race—commonly seen as biological in the medical world—is socially constructed among women dependent on the public healthcare system for prenatal care and childbirth. Bridges argues that race carries powerful material consequences for these women even when it is not explicitly named, showing how they are marginalized by the practices and assumptions of the clinic staff. Deftly weaving ethnographic evidence into broader discussions of Medicaid and racial disparities in infant and maternal mortality, Bridges shines new light on the politics of healthcare for the poor, demonstrating how the "medicalization" of social problems reproduces racial stereotypes and governs the bodies of poor women of color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1591206846517-DTCXJLDXIH5E41KZ2CTB/pelvis.jpg Maternal & Infant Health https://www.raceandmedicine.com/structural-racism daily 0.75 2020-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1593135260318-VUK8JVIJTVGSPWQWY0AL/Screen+Shot+2020-06-25+at+6.33.08+PM.png Structural racism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1588967235708-XNNDABI0XZAFJ71P1UMF/Structural%252BRacism.jpg Structural racism This New England Journal of Medicine article addresses one example of how structural racism results in health disparities and unequal care. https://www.raceandmedicine.com/respiratory daily 0.75 2020-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1590073593072-IJWDBH2NQJK4HUG0JHOR/Breathing+race+book.jpeg Spirometry In the antebellum South, plantation physicians used a new medical device—the spirometer—to show that lung volume and therefore vital capacity were supposedly less in black slaves than in white citizens. At the end of the Civil War, a large study of racial difference employing the spirometer appeared to confirm the finding, which was then applied to argue that slaves were unfit for freedom. What is astonishing is that this example of racial thinking is anything but a historical relic. In Breathing Race into the Machine, science studies scholar Lundy Braun traces the little-known history of the spirometer to reveal the social and scientific processes by which medical instruments have worked to naturalize racial and ethnic differences, from Victorian Britain to today. Routinely a factor in clinical diagnoses, preemployment physicals, and disability estimates, spirometers are often “race corrected,” typically reducing normal values for African Americans by 15 percent. An unsettling account of the pernicious effects of racial thinking that divides people along genetic lines, Breathing Race into the Machine helps us understand how race enters into science and shapes medical research and practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1592766243114-YBMY83AMDDHTO3HZ87PQ/redlining.jpg Spirometry https://www.raceandmedicine.com/represent daily 0.75 2020-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589815685951-JMGJTEZRY17JAGTY0J2G/doctor+URM.jpeg Representation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1590080749298-QZESAQ8QYFJO5UDYAJM2/Learning+graph.jpg Representation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589769187543-LIX683GK8ITF8AAXPPKV/Black+male+doctor.jpg Representation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1590082390389-OEQ7VM1AW1XJCD9ASASU/white+board.jpg Representation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1590082901367-0OM4Q8G9C8B2DRVVSQDH/Screen+Shot+2020-05-21+at+10.40.41+AM.png Representation The elephant in the room… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589318735758-HBN59JCU877GITWLQXRT/M%26Ms.jpg Representation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1556828357665-GC5C84LNCZOCBOR8SAYS/Percentage+of+URMs+in+General+Population+%26+Health+Professions Representation - Underrepresented Minorities (URMs) in the General Population & Health Professions Percentage of Underrepresented Minorities (URMs) in the General U.S. Population vs Health Professions. From Sex, Race, and Ethnic Diversity of US Health Occupations (2011-2015). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589815894421-FYTX4M8YJ07IMJ1BRILG/doctor-4253403_1280.jpg Representation https://www.raceandmedicine.com/implicit-bias daily 0.75 2020-05-22 https://www.raceandmedicine.com/racism-towards-health-professionals daily 0.75 2020-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589926147618-KGJKH39MACP82E1HZMZT/freshPerspectives.jpg I’m not racist, but… With racism a frequent topic in the news recently, [the AAFP] asked our new physician bloggers if racism has affected them in practice and how they deal with such encounters. This is what they said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1587583686152-J6GT8ODVMX7W9V28X38Z/stat_doctors_badbehavior_ink1rev.jpg I’m not racist, but… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1591307118738-AWSX4LNB95ZZAZZLZP34/discrimination%2Bpawn.jpg I’m not racist, but… https://www.raceandmedicine.com/caucusing-activities daily 0.75 2021-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589579469930-5816GHA7UWSYVML9SSLB/trees.jpg White Caucusing https://www.raceandmedicine.com/guidelines daily 0.75 2020-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589392559199-FJMPUMJAA16ZXZA3YLLH/small%2Bwhite%2Bgroup.jpg Caucusing Activities https://www.raceandmedicine.com/microaggressions daily 0.75 2020-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589394489749-XTJCCP9IUWG4CBFU16RS/microaggression.png Caucusing activity https://www.raceandmedicine.com/gfr-1 daily 0.75 2020-06-28 https://www.raceandmedicine.com/addressing-microaggressions-again daily 0.75 2020-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589756199479-PT65YQYSE5IVDKQOIXHB/hot-buttons.jpg Caucusing Activity https://www.raceandmedicine.com/talking-about-race-medicine daily 0.75 2020-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1590088575529-NGIIE17NHN52KDFYA3R8/toolkit.jpg getting started https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1590161868176-7328P2LL5Q7BUYK2EDA8/grand+rounds+04.jpg getting started https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1590164901089-T5Y0Z4ODTUWBUR3FVSGZ/yelling.png getting started https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1590163222544-9XA6YK54S8520NQ4Z90S/Rounds+CHill.jpeg getting started https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1591044375177-IZ1BS6PWGY9P2DE3R9SO/toolbox.jpg getting started https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1590160551275-WQDZHE04Y4FVDVIFXDZN/Small+group.jpeg getting started https://www.raceandmedicine.com/white-silence daily 0.75 2020-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589772695876-AGUOX3XX6OUTX9YDZ8IF/duct+tape+mouth.jpg Caucusing Activity https://www.raceandmedicine.com/white-by-law-excerpt daily 0.75 2020-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589572768581-0PHH3OQYU36SVSFFLKUU/White+by+Law+book.jpg Seeing Whiteness López IH. White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race. 10th Anniversary Edition. New York, NY: New York University Press; 2006. https://www.raceandmedicine.com/covid daily 0.75 2021-03-10 https://www.raceandmedicine.com/cancer daily 0.75 2021-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1592753991488-IMF05CY2Y3UCDF611ECY/breast+cancer.png Cancer Black patients with breast cancer and other malignancies face historical inequities that are ingrained but not inevitable. In this American Cancer Society article, the second of a 2‐part series, we explore the consequences of and potential solutions to racism and inequality in cancer care. https://www.raceandmedicine.com/but-studies-show daily 0.75 2020-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589411472874-62GLS5BBYCHYQ1RYEDNR/Screen+Shot+2020-05-13+at+4.07.16+PM.png Caucusing Activity https://www.raceandmedicine.com/how-to-be-an-antiracist daily 0.75 2020-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589747418945-JU7QD9J3FXNN3EE8M9QP/How+to+be+an+Antiracist+book.jpg Coronavirus as Catalyst Kendi IX. How to Be an Antiracist. New York, NY: One World; 2019. https://www.raceandmedicine.com/facing-our-white-superiority daily 0.75 2020-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589574461712-8YTXIJFGKTO2DNHZTIJF/Hello+I%27m+White.jpg Caucusing Activity https://www.raceandmedicine.com/microaggressions-2 daily 0.75 2020-05-17 https://www.raceandmedicine.com/renal daily 0.75 2020-10-24 https://www.raceandmedicine.com/hidden-curriculum daily 0.75 2020-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589768565202-9K0ETFQ0YQT14KCL7N7Q/books%2Band%2Bglasses.jpg Caucusing Activity https://www.raceandmedicine.com/obesity daily 0.75 2020-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1590419397301-OCB3SZBLH0MGTUA5F7ZF/Fearing+the+Black+Body+book.jpg Obesity There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased” and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago. In Fearing the Black Body, Strings weaves together an eye-opening historical narrative ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing important works of art, newspaper and magazine articles, and scientific literature and medical journals―where fat bodies were once praised―showing that fat phobia, as it relates to black women, did not originate with medical findings, but with the Enlightenment era belief that fatness was evidence of “savagery” and racial inferiority. The author argues that the contemporary ideal of slenderness is, at its very core, racialized and racist. Indeed, it was not until the early twentieth century, when racialized attitudes against fatness were already entrenched in the culture, that the medical establishment began its crusade against obesity. An important and original work, Fearing the Black Body argues convincingly that fat phobia isn’t about health at all, but rather a means of using the body to validate race, class, and gender prejudice. https://www.raceandmedicine.com/understanding-privilege daily 0.75 2020-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589582051647-VTMXEIMGSTSX0HQA9WEJ/It%27s+a+privilege.png Caucusing activity https://www.raceandmedicine.com/microaggression-strategies daily 0.75 2020-05-13 https://www.raceandmedicine.com/common-patterns daily 0.75 2020-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589585991861-9X8FILTCHWZSYHEF33PP/people+silouhette.png Caucusing Activity https://www.raceandmedicine.com/microaggression-examples daily 0.75 2020-06-05 https://www.raceandmedicine.com/seeing-whiteness daily 0.75 2020-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589570140204-AMVBMTXJSABP7OVMS90U/whiteness+definition.jpg Caucusing Activity https://www.raceandmedicine.com/coronavirus-as-catalyst daily 0.75 2020-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589750608447-ZOF5XH9AR9B0UF7Y685R/Coronavirus.jpg Caucusing Activity https://www.raceandmedicine.com/cardiovascular-health daily 0.75 2021-03-10 https://www.raceandmedicine.com/white-physician-privilege daily 0.75 2020-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1589584375275-IVEZ3A9NJBM7R4AQ7MRI/stethoscope.jpg Caucusing Activity https://www.raceandmedicine.com/shame daily 0.75 2020-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1594954043879-H22KX0H7B23IBG1A1HW7/shame.jpg Caucusing Activity https://www.raceandmedicine.com/police-violence daily 0.75 2020-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1591149556421-L1MZVXMYHMGKG5HQ59AH/Wattsriots-policearrest-loc.jpg Police Violence https://www.raceandmedicine.com/substance-use daily 0.75 2020-06-28 https://www.raceandmedicine.com/mistakes daily 0.75 2020-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1591112621159-DQ2MH5SKSS8FDXTQDGQJ/face+palm.jpg Caucusing activity https://www.raceandmedicine.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-white-excerpt daily 0.75 2020-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1591724957878-4824NSDWN9CP2SKM1Y5W/Cannot%2Bavoid.jpg Recovering from Mistakes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1591721847892-WOZ0D3DL8AIKZJKVJA39/Could%2Bnever%2Bmake.jpg Recovering from Mistakes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1591720851198-V0JGP2ISWEYN65KGIO0A/what+does+it+mean+to+be+white+book.jpg Recovering from Mistakes DiAngelo R. What Does It Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.; 2012. https://www.raceandmedicine.com/calculators daily 0.75 2020-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1593007850235-KL22GL0RKSZGNCDWH8VW/calculator.png Caucusing activity https://www.raceandmedicine.com/overcoming-indoctrination daily 0.75 2020-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1591377325177-2QRSNMYXM7FZJ2UCDA4L/Actual%2BGenetic%2BDiversity.jpg Overcoming Indoctrination Comparison of racial genetic diversity from the Center for Genetics and Society report Playing the Gene Card?: Contemporary data on human diversity supports a “nested subset” approach to race. This reflects the fact that “people have lived in Africa far longer than anywhere else, which has allowed the population in Africa to accumulate more of the small mutations that make up [human] genetic variation. Because only a part of the African population migrated out of Africa, only part of Africa’s genetic variation moved with them. For this reason, most genetic variation found in people living outside Africa is a subset of that found among Africans.” https://www.raceandmedicine.com/beyond-recruitment daily 0.75 2020-09-17 https://www.raceandmedicine.com/recruitment daily 0.75 2020-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1594938882163-F04TQ8BDEJWGJFJUJZPP/M%26Ms.jpg Caucusing activity https://www.raceandmedicine.com/derm daily 0.75 2020-09-01 https://www.raceandmedicine.com/professionalism daily 0.75 2021-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca901a5b10f255c013b1541/1610298010071-L0GMN744V18BH5TRHVU3/Snob.gif Caucusing activity