Resources | Anti-Racism
ARTICLES / NEWS
(In chronological order)
Black women in medicine—rising above invisibility
The Lancet | February 13, 2021
How Should Health Professional Education Respond to Widespread Racial and Ethnic Health Inequity and Police Brutality?
AMA Journal of Ethics | February 2021
Field Correction: Race-based medicine, deeply embedded in clinical decision making, is being scrutinized and challenged
Harvard Medicine | Winter 2021
Misrepresenting Race — The Role of Medical Schools in Propagating Physician Bias
The New England Journal of Medicine | January 6, 2021
Revising the a Priori Hypothesis: Systemic Racism Has Penetrated Scientific Funding
Cell | Vol. 183, Issue 3, pp.576-579, October 29, 202
In the name of justice: In the battle against systemic racism, these alumni chart different courses for change
October 28, 2020
Addressing racism in medicine: Experts call on colleagues to turn talk into action
Healio | October 14, 2020
From a small town in North Carolina to big-city hospitals, how software infuses racism into U.S. health care
STAT | October 13, 2020
Exploring the North’s long history of slavery, scientific racism
The Harvard Gazette | October 9, 2020
Addressing and Eliminating Racism at the AAMC and Beyond
AAMC | October 2020
Making Anti-Racism A Core Value In Academic Medicine
by J. Nwando Olayiwola, Darrell M. Gray, II, et al.
Health Affairs | August 25, 2020
GO TO FULL LIST OF ARTICLES AND NEWS...
BOOKS
(In alphabetical order by book title)
A Kid's Book About Racism
by Jelani Memory
Against All Odds: The Legacy of Students of African Descent at Harvard Medical School Before Affirmative Action, 1850-1968
by Nora N. Nercessian
Antiracist Baby
by Ibram X. Kendi
Black Bostonians and the Politics of Culture, 1920-1940
by Lorraine Elena Roses
Black Radical
by Kerry K. Greenidge
Citizen: An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine
City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771‒1965
by Kelly Lytle Hernández
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
The Cycle of a Dream: A Kid's Introduction to Structural Racism in America
by Kimberly Narain
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
Heavy: An American Memoir
by Kiese Laymon
How To Be An Antiracist
by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
Me and White Supremacy
by Layla F. Saad
The Origin of Others
by Toni Morrison
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution and Imprisonment
by Angela Davis
Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco
by Savannah Shange
Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945‒2006
by Manning Marable
Racism: A Short History
by George Fredrickson
Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care
by Augustus White III, MD
So You Want to Talk About Race
by Ijeoma Oluo
The Souls of Black Folk
by W.E.B. DuBois
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
by Arlie Hochschild
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
When Police Kill
by Franklin E. Zimring
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
FILMS
(In alphabetical order by film/series title)
A Dangerous Idea: Eugenics, Genetics and the American Dream
by Stephanie Welch
Come Hell or High Water
by Leah Mahan
Cooked
by Judith Helfand
Love & Solidarity: James Lawson & Nonviolence In The Search For Workers' Rights
by Michael Honey
Racism in America
PBS Film Listing
The Power to Heal
by Charles Burnett & Daniel Loewenthal
'63 Boycott
by Gordon Quinn
13TH
by Ava DuVernay
ORGANIZATIONS / INSTITUTIONS
(In alphabetical order)
Harvard Catalyst | Program for Cultural Competence in Research (PCCR)
VIDEOS / WEBINARS / PODCASTS
(In chronological order)
Racist Patients: Taking Action on Harmful Bias and Discrimination in Clinical Learning Environments
February 25, 2021 | 2:00pm
Racism and Discrimination in Health Care: Experiences Today and Actions to Address Going Forward
KFF and the Morehouse School of Medicine’s Satcher Health Leadership Institute
December 11, 2020 | 1:00pm
Racism and Racial Bias in Medicine
Skin of Color Society Foundation, NEJM Group, and VisualDx
October 28, 2020 | 1:00pm - 2:15pm | MORE
Ibram X. Kendi On Antiracist Research: Its Approach, Its History, Its Impact
Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
October 20, 2020 | 4:00pm | MORE
Podcast: Diagnosing Our National Disease
AAMC Association of American Medical Colleges
September 17, 2020 | MORE
Diversity Dialogue Series | Session 1: What Leaders Can Do to Address Racism
Partners Healthcare
June 18, 2020 | WATCH VIDEO
A Discussion on Black Lives, Protest, and Democracy
Panelists: Dr. Rhea Boyd, Pediatrician, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health MPH '17
Kaneesha Johnson, PhD candidate, Government Department, Harvard University
Prof. Leah Wright Rigueur, Brandeis University and Harvard Kennedy School
Prof. Megan Ming Francis (Moderator), Harvard Kennedy School, University of Washington
June 9, 2020 | WATCH VIDEO
Racism: The Ultimate Underlying Condition
Presenters: APHA Past President Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD, 2019-2020 Evelyn Green Davis Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Amani Allen, PhD, MPH, Executive Associate Dean, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
APHA American Public Health Association
June 9, 2020 | MORE
Naming Racism
Speakers: Camara Phyllis Jones, 2019–2020 Evelyn Green Davis Fellow, Radcliffe Institute; Adjunct Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University; Senior Fellow and Adjunct Associate Professor, Morehouse School of Medicine
David R. Williams, Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health; Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Professor of African and African American Studies and of Sociology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
June 5, 2020 | WATCH VIDEO
What Leaders Must Do Today to Address Systemic Racism
Harvard Business Review Video
June 3, 2020 | WATCH VIDEO
Community Conversations: Two Pandemics
Harvard University | John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and FAS Division of Science
June 2, 2020 | WATCH VIDEO
Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey
Integrated Schools
May 21, 2020 | LISTEN
The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist
TED Talk
May 2020 | WATCH VIDEO
Violence and Its Impact on Our Communities
Keynote: Robert Gore, MD, Attending Physician and Clinical Assistant Professor Kings County Hospital; Executive Director, Kings Against Violence Initiative
Panelists:, Norma Ayala, Deputy Superintendent, Boston Police Department | Chaplain Clementina Chéry, President and CEO, Louis D. Brown Peace Institute | Rahsaan D. Hall, Esq., Director, Racial Justice Program, ACLU of Massachusetts | William Morales, Commissioner, Boston Centers for Youth and Families
Moderated by Alden Landry, MD, MPH, Assistant Dean, Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
March 22, 2017 | WATCH VIDEO
Race, Racism and Health: Challenges and Opportunities - The House that Racism Built
David R. Williams, PhD, Florence & Laura Norman Professor of Public Health, Professor of African & African American Studies and of Sociology, Harvard University
October 11, 2016 | WATCH VIDEO
Achieving Health Equity: Tools for a National Campaign Against Racism
Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD, President, American Public Health Association; Senior Fellow, Satcher Health Leadership Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine
December 3, 2015 | WATCH VIDEO
The Impact of Racism on the Health and Well-Being of the Nation - Webinar Series
APHA American Public Health Association
Summer 2015 | MORE...
RESOURCES ON XENOPHOBIA
(In alphabetical order)
Anti-Asian Racism and COVID-19
Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine
Anti-Asian Racism Resources for K-12
by Sarah Park Dahlen, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Master of Library and Information Science Program at St. Catherine University
COVID-19, Race and Racism
Iowa State University Library
Reducing Stigma
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Speaking Up Against Racism Around the New Coronavirus
Teaching Tolerance
Treating Yellow Peril: Resources to Address Coronavirus Racism
by Jason Oliver Chang, Associate Professor, History and Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut
Washing Off COVID-19: The Racism & Xenophobia Too (video)
SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and Asian Pacific Islanders Caucus
OTHER RESOURCE LISTS
(In alphabetical order)
Addressing Harmful Bias and Eliminating Discrimination in Health Professions Learning Environments
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation | Conference Recommendations (Atlanta, Feb. 24-27, 2020)
Black Culture Films & Shows
PBS
Combating Anti-Black Racism
Harvard Diversity Inclusion and Belonging
Fighting Anti-Blackness Resource List
Harvard WIT+
MedEdPORTAL Anti-Racism in Medicine Collection
AAMC
MIT Hacking Racism in Healthcare
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Race and Medicine
NEJM
Resources for Talking to Your Child About Racism
Judge Baker Children's Center
Talking About Race
National Museum of African American History and Culture
26 Ways to Be in the Struggle Beyond the Streets