Racism & Anti-Racism

Guidelines on the use of race as patient identifiers in clinical presentations
Journal of the National Medical Association | August 4, 2021

A New Front Against Racism: State and med schools to address racism in medicine, health care
HMS News | August 3, 2021

William A. Hinton (1883–1959): Diagnosing and Confronting Racism in the Medical Profession
Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities | July 20, 2021

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky Unveils Agency Initiative to Address Racism in Health
Time | April 8, 2021

Taking Aim at Racism: PME anti-racism task force prepares findings, recommendations
HMS News | April 2, 2021

How Racism and Sexism Intertwine to Torment Asian-American Women
The New York Times | March 18, 2021

An Antiracist Agenda for Medicine
Boston Review | March 17, 2021

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

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 

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

Harvard Library | Confronting Anti-Black Racism

Harvard Catalyst | Program for Cultural Competence in Research (PCCR)

White Coats for Black Lives

(In chronological order)

Can reparations close the racial health gap?
A symposium examining the persistent toll of anti-Black racism and avenues for redress
FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University
November 3, 2022 | REGISTER

Precision Medicine 2021: Race & Ethnicity Annual Conference
Harvard Medical School Blavatnik Institute
September 14, 2021   | WATCH VIDEO

AAPI Resources & Support
Harvard University Health Services | Counseling and Mental Health Services

Anti-Asian Racism and COVID-19
Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine

Treating Yellow Peril: Resources to Address Coronavirus Racism
by Jason Oliver Chang, Associate Professor, History and Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut

COVID-19, Race and Racism
Iowa State University Library

Speaking Up Against Racism Around the New Coronavirus
Teaching Tolerance

Washing Off COVID-19: The Racism & Xenophobia Too (video)
SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and Asian Pacific Islanders Caucus