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- **Racism: Science and Tools for the Public Health Professional
APHA Press: 2nd edition now available (October 2024)
- 'Get Out' Sprang From An Effort To Master Fear, Says Director Jordan Peele
Fresh Air with Terry Gross, March 15, 2017 The new film, Get Out, defies easy classification. Though it has funny moments, it's primarily a horror film, with racial anxiety at its center. Writer-director Jordan Peele tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that he thinks of Get Out as a "social thriller." The movie tells the story of a young black man named Chris whose white girlfriend, Rose, takes him to meet her parents for the first time — without first telling them he's black. Rose's parents go out of their way to show Chris how open minded they are, but there's something suspicious in the liberal facade they present. The film takes several twists and turns (which we won't spoil here) as Chris figures out what is going on.
- 'National Geographic' Reckons With Its Past: 'For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist'
Laurel Wamsley, NPR, March 12, 2018 If National Geographic's April issue was going to be entirely devoted to the subject of race, the magazine decided it had better take a good hard look at its own history. Editor in Chief Susan Goldberg asked John Edwin Mason, a professor of African history and the history of photography at the University of Virginia, to dive into the magazine's nearly 130-year archive and report back. What Mason found was a long tradition of racism in the magazine's coverage: in its text, its choice of subjects, and in its famed photography.
- "Race", Racism, and the Practice of Epidemiology
Invited commentary in response to Jay Kaufman and Richard Cooper, Commentary: Considerations for Use of Racial/Ethnic Classification in Etiologic Research
- *2020 Anti-Racism Bill introduced by Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA-07), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA-13) have introduced The Anti-Racism in Public Health Act of 2020.
- *Chandra Ford - Addressing racism: do theory & methods matter? (65 min.)
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- *The Long History And Lasting Legacy Of Housing Segregation
NPR 1A, with Joshua Johnson, May 10, 2017 In his new book Richard Rothstein explains how, for more than 100 years, the U.S. government practiced, enforced and allowed segregation in housing. Segregated public housing, whites-only suburbs, racially biased loan programs and a host of other practices hobbled African-Americans, Rothstein argues, leading to the deep socioeconomic and geographic divides that exist in the United States today. Rothstein calls his book “a forgotten history” because it was once known. Acknowledging and understanding this history again, he says, is the first step toward finding a solution. Guests Richard Rothstein research associate, Economic Policy Institute; senior fellow, Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; author "The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America" Jim Carr Coleman A. Young Endowed Chair and Professor in Urban Affairs, Wayne State University; Visiting Fellow with the Roosevelt Institute; consultant to the National Association of Real Estate Brokers Nela Richardson chief economist at Redfin Sherrilyn Ifill president and director-counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- An Insider's View: The Dark Rigidity of Fundamentalist Rural America
In deep-red white America, the white Christian God is king. By Forsetti's Justice / AlterNet, March 13, 2017 The real problem isn’t East Coast elites who don’t understand or care about rural America. The real problem is that rural Americans don't understand the causes of their own situations and fears and they have shown no interest in finding out. They don’t want to know why they feel the way they do or why they are struggling because they don’t want to admit it is in large part because of the choices they’ve made and the horrible things they’ve allowed themselves to believe. See also the comments.
- Anti-racism and equity teaching resources
From the Equity in Teaching Institute at the UNC Center for Faculty Excellence
- APHA "The Impact of Racism on the Health and Well-Being of the Nation" webinars
Webinar # 1 | Naming and Addressing Racism: A Primer Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD, MPH, and Camara P. Jones, MD, MPH, PhD July 21, 2015 | 2 p.m. EDT Webinar #2 | No Safety, No Health: A Conversation About Race, Place and Preventing Violence August 4, 2015 | 2 p.m. EDT Webinar #3 | Unequal Treatment: Disparities in Access, Quality and Care August 25, 2015 | 2 p.m. EDT Webinar #4 | Racism: The Silent Partner in High School Dropout and Health Disparities September 1, 2015 | 2 p.m. EDT Slides and recordings available.
- Black Man Running: Group Races To Change Public Perceptions
Laura Pellicer and Frank Stasio, NPR, The State of Things, Nov. 29, 2016 Host Frank Stasio speaks with Rendell Smith, and with the group’s running coach, Martha Foye, about how the group runs are shaping a healthy and politically-aware community in Wilmington. Stasio is also joined by Professor Rashawn Ray who researches the challenges and stereotypes members of the African-American community face when exercising publicly, and Toni Carey, founder of the national running group Black Girls RUN!.
- California Newsreel - The House We Live In: Race—The Power of an Illusion (56:27)
"Virginia law once defined a black person as someone with 1/16th African ancestry; in Florida, it was 1/8th African ancestry. If you can cross a state line and literally, legally change race, what does race really mean? This program argues that the idea of race was developed and reinforced through politics, economics, and culture. Real estate practices as well as federal regulations kept new neighborhoods segregated after World War II, and it was the white families awarded mortgages whose assets accumulated, creating a legacy of opportunity for their children and grandchildren. With the starting line for the next generation drawn at different points on the field, the racial divide could only grow larger. Part of the series Race: The Power of an Illusion. (56 minutes)"
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- Diane Rehm Show - Racial Incidents, Student Protests And Resignations At The University of Missouri
Racial Incidents, Student Protests And Resignations At The University of Missouri Diane Rehm Show, Tuesday, Nov 10 2015 • 10 a.m. (ET) The president of the University of Missouri system resigned and the chancellor of the university’s main campus in Columbia announced he’s stepping aside. Their moves are in response to student protesters who charged that the university failed to adequately respond to recent racial incidents: racial tensions on campus and debate over a university administration’s response Guests Juana Summers political editor, Mashable; 2009 graduate, University of Missouri Jamelle Bouie chief political correspondent, Slate Robby Soave staff editor, Reason.com Krishnadev Calamur senior editor, The Atlantic; 2000 graduate, Missouri School of Journalism, University of Missouri
- Evidence Of Racial, Gender Biases Found In Faculty Mentoring
NPR Morning Edition
by Shankar Vedantam
April 22, 2014 4:56 AM ET
- Get Back to Where You Once Belonged
WBEZ This American Life, episode 694, February 14, 2020
People looking everywhere to find a place—any place—where, for once, they don't have to be the odd man out.
Prologue: Emanuele Berry and Ira Glass watch a Soviet film from 1936. A bizarre cameo of an African American baby in an all-white crowd makes Emanuele wonder about what it’s like to be black in a country with so few black people. (7 minutes)
Act One: Black in the USSR, by Emanuele Berry
Yelena Khanga grew up in Russia knowing almost no other black people. Emanuele Berry asks Yelena what that was like. As Emanuele learns about it, she realizes something about being black in America, too. (22 minutes)
Act Two: Nowhere Man, by Jeremy Raff
Raul felt like he had found his spot in the world: a job he was good at, a group of people he liked and admired. And then he got kicked out. Kicked out in this way he didn’t even know was possible. Reporter Jeremy Raff explains. (28 minutes) A version of this story appears in The Atlantic.
- Gunnar Myrdal - An American dilemma: The Negro problem and modern democracy
An American dilemma: The Negro problem and modern democracy Gunnar Myrdal, with the assistance Richard Sterner and Arnold Rose, Harper and Brothers, 1944 Financial support from the Carnegie Corporation (PDF full text; text version at https://archive.org/stream/AmericanDilemmaTheNegroProblemAndModernDemocracy/AmericanDelemmaVersion2_djvu.txt)
- Historical Foundations of Race
National Museum of African American History and Culture
The term “race,” used infrequently before the 1500s, was used to identify groups of people with a kinship or group connection. The modern-day use of the term “race” is a human invention.
- How Bill Clinton’s Welfare “Reform” Created a System Rife With Racial Biases
Joshua Holland, Moyers & Co., May 12, 2014 "For white clients, it actually made no difference whether you were in the most liberal or most conservative county. You’d be treated the same regardless. It was only clients of color who received different treatment in conservative and liberal counties."
- Implicit Race Bias Decreases the Similarity of Neural Representations of Black and White Faces
Tobias Brosch, Eyal Bar-David, Elizabeth A. Phelps. Psychological Science. February 2013;24(2):160-166
- Jennifer Harvey - Dear White Christians: For those still longing for racial reconciliation
Dear White Christians: For those still longing for racial reconciliation Jennifer Harvey Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, Nov 26, 2014 "In this provocative book Jennifer Harvey argues for a radical shift in how justice-committed white Christians think about race. She calls for moving away from the reconciliation paradigm that currently dominates interracial relations and embracing instead a reparations paradigm."
- Leonard Pitts - Rachel Dolezal proves race not a fixed or objective fact
Rachel Dolezal proves race not a fixed or objective fact In Herald-Sun, Jun. 19, 2015
- Listeners Share Stories Of Racism At School
NPR Weekend Edition Saturday, WUNC-FM, Feb. 9, 2019
- Marketplace - Black-owned banks are dying. Here's why it matters (5 min)
Black-owned banks are dying. Here's why it matters. Dan Weissmann, Thursday, July 2, 2015, Marketplace Page includes links to "DuSable to Obama - Chicago's Black Metropolis" (136 min). and "Rejected, Shackled, and Alone: The Impact of Systemic Restricted Choice on Minority Consumers’ Construction of Self" Sterling A. Bone, Glenn L. Christensen, and Jerome D. Williams Journal of Consumer Research, The University of Chicago Press
- Mary Carey: Until the stares of strangers remind me
Mary Carey: Until the stares of strangers remind me Chapel Hill News, Opinion, November 9, 2015
- Michelle Conlin - Off duty, black cops in New York feel threat from fellow police
Off duty, black cops in New York feel threat from fellow police
By Michelle Conlin, Reuters
New York Tue Dec 23, 2014 5:54pm EST
- NPR - the race card project
Collection of NPR broadcasts on race, immigration, and related issues, past and current.
- Patricia Williams - The Value of Whiteness: A lawsuit is being waged against the “wrongful birth” of a black child.
The Value of Whiteness A lawsuit is being waged against the “wrongful birth” of a black child. Patricia J. Williams, November 12, 2014 This article appeared in the December 1-8, 2014 edition of The Nation.as "A wrongful birth: A recent lawsuit shows how whiteness is still treated as valuable property"
- PBS - American Denial
American Denial (Independent Lens) Llewellyn Smith, Christine Herbes-Sommers, Kelly Thomson Premiered February 23, 2015 Other episodes in this series: Implicit Bias Test, People at the Margins "Follow the story of Swedish researcher Gunnar Myrdal whose landmark 1944 study, An American Dilemma, probed deep into the United States' racial psyche. The film weaves a narrative that exposes some of the potential underlying causes of racial biases still rooted in America’s systems and institutions today."
- Poll finds a majority of white Americans say discrimination against whites exists in America today
From the series“Discrimination in America”. Based on a survey conducted for National Public Radio, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
- Race, research and reckoning
Susan Hudson, The Well, Monday, September 14th, 2020
Panelists at the University’s first Race, Racism and Racial Equity symposium, "The Historical Exploitation of Black and Brown Bodies at UNC: Learning from the Past to Change the Present", discuss how campus buildings, property and even historical archives came at the price of racial exploitation.
- RACE Are we so different?
The RACE Project explains differences among people and reveals the unreality of race.
- Racial Bias, Even When We Have Good Intentions
Racial Bias, Even When We Have Good Intentions
Sendhil Mullainathan, NY Times, Jan 3, 2015
The Upshot: Economic View
- Racism and Health Outcomes
Camara Phyllis Jones, on the YHP (Young Health Professionals) Everything is Public Health Podcast, hosted by Linda Rae Murray and Marcus Murray. February 17, 2022
- S2 Episode 2: Who is White? (18 min)
October 25, 2016. This Ways & Means Podcast from the Duke Sanford School of Public Policy explores the shifting ideas about who is considered “white” in America – how it’s changed, what it means, and how it may be changing still. Guests include journalist Pilar Marrero; Gunther Peck, associate professor of history and public policy at Duke University; and Sarah Gaither, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke. Transcript available
- Seeing White
Where did the notion of “whiteness” come from? What does it mean? What is whiteness for? Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen took a deep dive into these questions, along with an array of leading scholars and regular guest Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika, in this fourteen-part documentary series, released between February and August 2017. The series editor is Loretta Williams. From the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
- Segregation in America
Report and digital exhibit by the Equal Justice Initiative America’s history of racial inequality continues to haunt us. The genocide of Native people, 250-year enslavement of black people, adoption of “racial integrity laws” that demonized ethnic immigrants and people of color, and enforcement of policies and practices designed to perpetuate white supremacy are all part of our difficult past. This country has witnessed great triumph, innovation, and progress, but we are burdened by a painful history that we have yet to adequately acknowledge.
- Sendhil Mullainathan - Racial Bias, Even When We Have Good Intentions
Racial Bias, Even When We Have Good Intentions Sendhil Mullainathan, NY Times, Jan 3, 2015 (The Upshot; Economic View)
- Structures of Inequality: A Focused Look at Systems of Racism
Structures of Inequality: A Focused Look at Systems of Racism
The longstanding realities of systemic racism are being laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing police violence. Issues of injustice and inequality are broad, deep, and interconnected.
Systemic Racism and Health Disparities
Geni Eng, Professor Gillings School of Global Public Health, Thursday, August 27
Systemic Racism and Education
Constance Lindsay, Assistant Professor of Education, Thursday, September 10
Systemic Racism and Criminal Justice
Frank Baumgartner, Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Wednesday, September 23
Systemic Racism and Economic Disparities
Heather Hunt, Research Associate with the NC Poverty Research Fund, Thursday, October 8
Systemic Racism and Voting
Jim Leloudis, Professor of History and Peter T. Grauer Associate Dean for Honors Carolina, Tuesday, October 20
Systemic Racism and The Way We Think
Keith Payne, Professor of Psychology and Neuropsychology, Monday, November 2
- Tennessee school removes Confederate flag, lynching murals
Amy La Porte, CNN, March 5, 2018. A painting of a Confederate flag and a mural depicting a lynching have been removed from the walls of a Tennessee school gymnasium. The mural showed a white man, dressed in blue, hanging from a rope tied to a tree branch. Another person was standing nearby, in a red jersey, and holding a Confederate flag. The painting was intended to depict an athletic team rivalry.
- The Impact of Racism on Children’s Health - AAP/NYTimes
Perri Klass, M.D., NY Times, Aug. 12, 2019
A new statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics looks at the effects of racism on children’s development, starting in the womb.
- The role of Racism in Health Inequalities: Integrating Approaches from Across Disciplines
Edited by Margaret Hicken, Myles Durkee, Nicole Kravitz-Wurtz, James Jackson. Social Science & Medicine; February 2018;199:11-240. Contents: Racial inequalities in health: Framing future research, 11-18 Margaret T. Hicken, Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, Myles Durkee, James S. Jackson Racialized legal status as a social determinant of health,19-28 Asad L. Asad, Matthew Clair State-level immigration and immigrant-focused policies as drivers of Latino health disparities in the United States, 29-38 Morgan M. Philbin, Morgan Flake, Mark L. Hatzenbuehler, Jennifer S. Hirsch From undocumented to lawfully present: Do changes to legal status impact psychological wellbeing among latino immigrant young adults? 39-48 Caitlin Patler, Whitney Laster Pirtle Area racism and birth outcomes among Blacks in the United States, 49-55 David H. Chae, Sean Clouston, Connor D. Martz, Mark L. Hatzenbuehler, ... Michael R. Kramer Community-level prejudice and mortality among immigrant groups, 56-66 Brittany N. Morey, Gilbert C. Gee, Peter Muennig, Mark L. Hatzenbuehler At the intersection of place, race, and health in Brazil: Residential segregation and cardio-metabolic risk factors in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil), 67-76 Sharrelle Barber, Ana V. Diez Roux, Letícia Cardoso, Simone Santos, ... Dora Chor Segregation and mortality over time and space, 77-86 Trevon D. Logan, John M. Parman The enduring impact of historical and structural racism on urban violence in Philadelphia, 87-95 Sara F. Jacoby, Beidi Dong, Jessica H. Beard, Douglas J. Wiebe, Christopher N. Morrison “We black women have to kill a lion everyday”: An intersectional analysis of racism and social determinants of health in Brazil, 96-105 Vijaya K. Hogan, Edna M. de Araujo, Kia L. Caldwell, Sarah N. Gonzalez-Nahm, Kristin Z. Black Structural racism in the workplace: Does perception matter for health inequalities? 106-114 Courtney L. McCluney, Lauren L. Schmitz, Margaret T. Hicken, Amanda Sonnega A safe haven for the injured? Urban trauma care at the intersection of healthcare, law enforcement, and race, 115-122 Sara F. Jacoby, Therese S. Richmond, Daniel N. Holena, Elinore J. Kaufman Biocultural citizenship and embodying exceptionalism: Biopolitics for sickle cell disease in Brazil, 123-131 Melissa S. Creary Institutional racism in public health contracting: Findings of a nationwide survey from New Zealand, 132-139 H. Came, C. Doole, B. McKenna, T. McCreanor Exploring how prison-based drug rehabilitation programming shapes racial disparities in substance use disorder recovery, 140-147 Erin M. Kerrison The effects of whiteness on the health of whites in the USA, 148-156 Jennifer Malat, Sarah Mayorga-Gallo, David R. Williams The weight of racism: Vigilance and racial inequalities in weight-related measures, 157-166 Margaret T. Hicken, Hedwig Lee, Anna K. Hing Racial disparities in health among nonpoor African Americans and Hispanics: The role of acute and chronic discrimination, 167-180 Cynthia G. Colen, David M. Ramey, Elizabeth C. Cooksey, David R. Williams Tackling racism as a “wicked” public health problem: Enabling allies in anti-racism praxis, 181-188 Heather Came, Derek Griffith Using a structural competency framework to teach structural racism in pre-health education, 189-201 Jonathan M. Metzl, JuLeigh Petty, Oluwatunmise V. Olowojoba Making a difference in medical trainees' attitudes toward Latino patients: A pilot study of an intervention to modify implicit and explicit attitudes, 202-208 Mimi V. Chapman, William J. Hall, Kent Lee, Robert Colby, ... Keith Payne Health care barriers, racism, and intersectionality in Australia, 209-218 João L. Bastos, Catherine E. Harnois, Yin C. Paradies A decade of studying implicit racial/ethnic bias in healthcare providers using the implicit association test, 219-229 Ivy W. Maina, Tanisha D. Belton, Sara Ginzberg, Ajit Singh, Tiffani J. Johnson Transmitting Trauma: A systematic review of vicarious racism and child health, 230-240 N.J. Heard-Garris, M. Cale, L. Camaj, M.C. Hamati, T.P. Dominguez
- The State of Things - Reflections on Race and Medicine (17 min)
Reflections On Race And Medicine Anita Rao & Frank Stasio WUNC The State of Things, 7/2/2015 Host Frank Stasio talks to Damon Tweedy, professor of psychiatry at Duke University and staff physician at Durham VA Medical Center. Dr. Tweedy's "upcoming memoir 'A Black Man In A White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine' (Picador/2015) documents his experiences grappling with racial identity and the unique health problems of black Americans."
- The State of Things - The Social Science of Diversity (17 min)
The Social Science Of Diversity, by Will Michaels & Frank Stasio WUNC The State of Things "Host Frank Stasio talks with professor and author Rupert Nacoste ... [who] argues that an unwillingness to have challenging conversations about race stunts the ability to accept people who look or act differently. His new book, Taking on Diversity (Prometheus Books/2015), uses the stories of his students at N.C. State University to illustrate how we might 'move from anxiety to respect.'"
- The State of Things - What Is A Terrorist? (30 min)
What Is A Terrorist? Hady Mawajdeh & Frank Stasio July 2, 2015, WUNC The State of Things
- The Subtle Transmission of Race Bias via Televised Nonverbal Behavior
Max Weisbuch, Kristin Pauker, Nalini Ambady. Science 18 Dec 2009;326(5960):1711-1714.
- West Virginia Official Who Called Michelle Obama ‘Ape In Heels’ Gets Her Job Back
Huffington Post, Rebecca Shapiro, 12/12/2016 Following Donald Trump’s presidential victory, Clay County Development Corp. Director Pamela Ramsey Taylor posted to Facebook, “It will be refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified First Lady in the White House. I’m tired of seeing a Ape in heels.” Rather than condemn Taylor’s racist comment, Clay Mayor Beverly Whaling replied, “Just made my day Pam.” Whaling later stepped down from her post.
- White Like Me: Race, Racism & White Privilege in America (69 min, 2013)
White Like Me: Race, Racism & White Privilege in America (69 min, 2013) Tim Wise "White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. In a stunning reassessment of the American ideal of meritocracy and claims that we've entered a post-racial society, Wise offers a fascinating look back at the race-based white entitlement programs that built the American middle class, and argues that our failure as a society to come to terms with this legacy of white privilege continues to perpetuate racial inequality and race-driven political resentments today."
- Who Gets To Hang Out At The Pool?
Who Gets To Hang Out At The Pool? June 09, 2015 7:03 AM ET Gene Demby 2013 NPR Code Switch
- Z - See also Adversity - poverty, inequality, abuse
- Z - See also Racism in academia