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Antiracism Resource Guide

This guide provides resources for health sciences faculty and staff who are looking to facilitate classroom or workplace discussions and activities about race and efforts to eliminate racism and inequalities.

Resources Suggested by Students

A Century of Eugenics in America: From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and its Assault on the American Mind
Ailing in Place: Environmental Inequities and Health Disparities in Appalachia
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
An American Health Dilemma: A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race: Beginnings to 1900 
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
Black & Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism
Black Rage: Two Black Psychiatrists Reveal the Full Dimensions of the Inner Conflicts and the Desperation of Black Life in the United States
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination
Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Recreate Race in the TwentyFirst Century
Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown
Global Health: Why Cultural Perceptions, Social Representations, and Biopolitics Matter
Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research
Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Race and Mental Illness in the Nation’s Capital
Making a Place for Ourselves: The Black Hospital Movement, 19201945
Medical Anthropology: A Biocultural Approach
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference
Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a PostGenomic Age
Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth
Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women’s Health Activism in America, 18901950
Tell Me Why My Children Died: Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The Poverty Industry: The Eploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became A Black Disease
World in Motion: Globalization and the Environment Reader

Antiracism and Racism Books

Image of the cover of How does it feel to be a problem? : being young and Arab in America by Moustafa Bayoumi
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Stamped : racism, antiracism, and you / written by Jason Reynolds ; adapted from Stamped from the beginning by and with an introduction from Ibram X. Kendi
The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education: Continuing Challenges for the 21st Century
Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia by Yolanda Flores Niemann, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, et al.
Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work by Ruchika Tulshyan (Author), Ijeoma Oluo (Foreword)

Antiracism and Racism Book Discussion Guides

General Antiracism Readings