MHE Recommended Resources
The following are provided as a means of encouraging curiosity, conversations, and willingness to broaden perspectives. Additional ideas regarding DEI related websites, articles, or books to add to this list are highly desired. Please consider submitting those ideas to Dr. Hunt-Harrison at tyehimba_hunt-harrison@med.unc.edu.
American Psychiatric Association:
https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/cultural-competency/education
https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/cultural-competency/advocacy-news
https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/structural-racism-task-force
APA Apologizes for Its Support of Racism in Psychiatry
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s Anti-Racism Resource Library:
https://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Families_and_Youth/Resource_Libraries/Racism_Resource_Library.aspx
American Medical Association:
ama-equity-strategic-plan (002).pdf
Other Websites:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/health/psychiatry-racism-black-americans.html
Books:
The Social Determinants of Mental Health edited by Michael Compton and Ruth Shim
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rosenstein
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones and New York Times