Anti-racism & Black Lives Matter Resources

Recommended by Jake Ryann Sumibcay, a doctoral student in Public Health at CGU School of Community and Global Health. This book outlines the relationship between racism and health, while providing public health professionals with a variety of actions, strategies, and tools to understand and address the public health implications of racism, as well as inspiration to pursue health equity.

Recommended by Jake Ryann Sumibcay, a doctoral student in Public Health at CGU School of Community and Global Health. International Conference on Health in the African Diaspora (ICHAD) was a multidisciplinary conference that explored the health condition of African descendants and what could be done to improve their health outcomes. Legacy of the Crossing is the research and teaching product that came out of the ICHAD conference. Legacy of the Crossing deploys solid research to chart the health status and outcomes among African descendants.

Recommended by Jake Ryann Sumibcay, a doctoral student in Public Health at CGU School of Community and Global Health. A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms.

Recommended by Jake Ryann Sumibcay, a doctoral student in Public Health at CGU School of Community and Global Health. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's acclaimed Racism without Racists documents how, beneath our contemporary conversation about race, there lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for--and ultimately justify--racial inequalities.

Recommended by Jake Ryann Sumibcay, a doctoral student in Public Health at CGU School of Community and Global Health. Black & Blue is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients. The standard studies of medical racism examine past medical abuses of black people and do not address the racially motivated thinking and behaviors of physicians practicing medicine today. Black & Blue penetrates the physician's private sphere where racial fantasies and misinformation distort diagnoses and treatments.

Recommended by Jake Ryann Sumibcay, a doctoral student in Public Health at CGU School of Community and Global Health. A Terrible Thing to Waste, award-winning science writer Harriet A. Washington adds her incisive analysis to the fray, arguing that IQ is a biased and flawed metric, but that it is useful for tracking cognitive damage. She takes apart the spurious notion of intelligence as an inherited trait, using copious data that instead point to a different cause of the reported African American-white IQ gap: environmental racism - a confluence of racism and other institutional factors that relegate marginalized communities to living and working near sites of toxic waste, pollution, and insufficient sanitation services. She investigates heavy metals, neurotoxins, deficient prenatal care, bad nutrition, and even pathogens as chief agents influencing intelligence to explain why communities of color are disproportionately affected -- and what can be done to remedy this devastating problem.

Recommended by Jake Ryann Sumibcay, a doctoral student in Public Health at CGU School of Community and Global Health. War on Drugs, Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: the social welfare programs of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society at the height of the civil rights era. Johnson's War on Poverty policies sought to foster equality and economic opportunity. But these initiatives were also rooted in widely shared assumptions about African Americans' role in urban disorder, which prompted Johnson to call for a simultaneous War on Crime.

Recommended by Jake Ryann Sumibcay, a doctoral student in Public Health at CGU School of Community and Global Health. Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are known to reflect access to care and other issues that arise from differing socioeconomic conditions. There is, however, increasing evidence that even after such differences are accounted for, race and ethnicity remain significant predictors of the quality of health care received. In Unequal Treatment, a panel of experts documents this evidence and explores how persons of color experience the health care environment. The book examines how disparities in treatment may arise in health care systems and looks at aspects of the clinical encounter that may contribute to such disparities.