Books
20 Picture Books for 2020: Readings to Embrace Race, Provide Solace & Do Good African-American & Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Borders of Belonging: Struggle and Solidarity in Mixed-Status Immigrant Families by Heide Castañeda
Born a Crime by Trevor NoahBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownFacilitating Difficult Race Discussions Fight Back: An Antiracist Reading List Fix Your Climate: A Practical Guide to Reducing Microaggressions, Microbullying, and Bullying in the Academic Workplace by Myron R. Anderson and Kathryn S. Young
How the Best Bosses Interrupt Bias on Their Teams How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi How Organizations Can Support the Mental Health of Black Employees I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz In My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem ( Racial Trauma ) IntersectionAllies : We Make Room f or All , by Chelsea Johnson, LaToya Council & Carolyn Choi (FREE PDF or buy the book) I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown Killing the Black Body , by Dorothy Roberts The LGBTQ Book of Days (key people and dates from history) Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America by Roberto G. Gonzales Making of Asian America by Erika Lee My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem . Las Vegas: Central Recovery Press, 2017 (Book) The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (workbook with action steps)Not My Idea: A book about whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham (FREE PDF or buy the book) The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease by Jonathan Metzl
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America (5 th ed ) by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Role of hospitals in addressing social determinants of health: A groundwater approach Sitting-in for disability rights: The Section 504 protests of the 1970s So, You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo Stamped from the Beginning : The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to a White America by Eric Michael DysonThey Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields: Injury, Illness and Illegality among U.S. Farmworkers by Sarah Bronwen Horton
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man , Emmanuel AchoWaking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving What Are You? Voices of Mixed-Race Young People, Pearl Fuyo Gaskins, editor What If I Say the Wrong Thing? 25 Habits for Culturally Effective People by Vernā̄. Myers
The White Racial Frame: Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing by Joe Feagin White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo (Understanding & acknowledging the ways white people have a hard time talking about race) Me and white supremacy : Combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor (28-day journey – Dismantling internalized white supremacy ) by Layla F. Saad Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria : And Other Conversations About Race, by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Articles & Blogs
3 Things to Know: Cultural Humility 26 Ways to Be in the Struggle Beyond the Streets #AmIQualified: Let’s talk about bilingualism and white supremacy in CSD, one layer at a time Ableism 101: What it is, what it looks like, and what we can do to to fix it America’s schools are more diverse than ever. But the teachers are still mostly white. An Early History – African American Mental Health The Associations of Clinicians’ Implicit Attitudes About Race With Medical Visit Communication and Patient Ratings of Interpersonal Care Black And African American Communities And Mental Health Black Women Are Leading The Way In Environmental Justice Centering Equity and Community in the Recovery of the COVID-19 Pandemic Closing the Gap: Creating Equity in the Classroom Combating Racism and Discrimination in and through Education Confronting our beliefs about poverty and discipline The Conspiracy of Silence: 3 Protocols of White / Western Culture That Impede Authentic Dialogue of Race Cultural Competence: A Paradigm Shift in the Cultural Competence versus Cultural Humility Debate Dealing with Racist Patients Disarming Racial Microaggressions: Microintervention Strategies for Targets, White Allies, and Bystanders Doctors Overwhelmingly Harbor Negative Views Of Those With Disabilities, Study Finds
Physicians’ Perceptions Of People With Disability And Their Health Care. L. Iezzoni, S. Rao, J. Ressalam, D. Bolcic-Jankovic, N. Agaronnik, K. Donelan, T. Lagu, and E. Campbell. Health Affairs 2021 40:2, 297-306
Do Words Matter? Stigmatizing Language and the Transmission of Bias in the Medical Record (Take care not to transmit bias in medical documentation ) The Environmental Justice Movement Is Rooted In Black History Equity Literacy for All Five Tiny but Impactful ‘Microaffirmations’ to Make Everyone on Your Team Feel Valued and Included Frederick Douglass’ 1854 speech: The Claims of the Negro – Frederick Douglass gave the Commencement Address at Western Reserve College and Academy in 1854 to an all white gathering of faculty, students, and guests. The speech was truly remarkable then and continues to be so today for the humility of the speaker, the audience, the time in our history, the argument made, and the charge to the individual and society at the conclusion of the speech. Everything about the speech has relevance today. (thanks to Dr. Mike Gross for this description/suggestion )The historical roots of racial disparities in the mental health system How bigotry created a black mental health crisis How Lack Of Diversity In Mental Health Jobs Affects Communities Of Color How we fail black patients in pain How “Well-Intended” White People Uphold Racism I’m Exhausted From Trying To Be The ‘Right’ Kind Of Black Girl At Work In Our Own Voice – African-American Stories of Oppression, Survival and Recovery in Mental Health Systems Introducing the Out100 Trans Obituaries Project Is It a Microaggression? Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development Microaggressions and “Evidence”: Empirical or Experiential Reality? New evidence regarding racial and ethnic disparities in mental health: policy implications Opportunities for Improving Population Health in the Post–COVID-19 Era Pressure: A Commentary on the Black Physical Therapy Student Experience The Quest for Environmental Justice and the Politics of Place and Race Racial Disparities in Mental Health Treatment Racial/ethnic differences in perception of need for mental health treatment in a US national sample Unpacking Young Adults’ Experiences of Race- and Gender-Based Microaggressions What a World Without Cops Would Look Like What do you say to “That’s so gay” and other anti-lgbtq comments? What If I Say the Wrong Thing? 10 Tips for Culturally Effective People by Vernā̄. MyersWhite Supremacy Culture
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