AntiOppression resources
These are things I’ve found and shared over the last few years, semi-organized. By no means exhaustive.
Lists of anti-racism resources and actions to take, including becoming an informed bystander to intervene if you see someone being harassed (ihollaback.org), report hate crimes (stopaapihate.org, or the SF Human Rights hotline at 415-252-2500)
People to read/follow on social media: TheConsciousKid, HereWeRead, Britt Hawthorn; hateisavirus and teachandtransform they do a great job of sharing tools for ensuring kids’ bookshelves and education are diverse.
Teaching resources
MedEd guide to identifying and addressing microaggressions on the spot
Academics for Black Survival and Wellness: bookmark now for next year’s trainings
Research resources
AMA style guide on “The Reporting of Race and Ethnicity in Medical and Science Journals”
Dr. Vanessa Grubbs’ NEMJ piece
This article a friend shared with me about the complexities of who has standing to study what. With sufficiently generous funding and using team science and community-based participatory research approaches you can have studies that are designed and run and interpreted by people of diverse backgrounds and standing.
This study that says the initial scores on grants account for racial disparities. I also was reminded that Black people and other POC are often not cited in academic work – see @citeblackwomen on Twitter for ideas.
This resource, which includes “A Beginner’s Curriculum on Critical Race Theory”.
Methods resources shared by sociologist Alyasah A. Sewell, associate professor at Emory, on Twitter (most of these are their own work)
Podcast on Mortgage Markets and the Roots of Racial Health Disparities
20-minute video lecture “From Collateral Damage to Carceral Grief: Race, Illness, and Policing”
2 hour video recording of a lecture on “Nested Models for Critical Studies of Race & Racism: Creating Measures of Supraindividual Racism” from the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research (summer camp for social scientists)
Article “The Racism-Race Reification Process: A Mesolevel Political Economic Framework for Understanding Racial Health Disparities” (A multilevel root-cause conceptual framework, the racism-race reification process (R3p), is proposed and preliminarily tested to delineate how institutional conditions shape the health of racially marginalized individuals through the reification of race)
Resources to learn about Race & Racism in Medicine
Distinguishing workforce diversity from health equity initiatives
Article on Equity Tourism
Braverman: paper review of Health Disparities and Health Equity: Concepts and Measurement
Hicken: paper on Racial inequalities in health: Framing future research
Hallinan: paper on Sociological Perspectives on Black-White Inequalities in American Schooling
Paper on Achieving Health Equity in Embedded Pragmatic Trials for People Living with Dementia and Their Family Caregivers: description of “what is currently known about the inclusion of health disparities populations of people living with dementia (PLWD) and their caregivers in ePCTs, highlights unique challenges related to health equity in the conduct of ePCTs, and suggests priority areas in the design and implementation of ePCTs to increase the awareness and avoidance of pitfalls that may perpetuate and magnify healthcare disparities”
new National Institutes of Health (NIH) UNITE initiative to end structural racism in biomedical research. There’s no way it has enough funding for the job ahead.
Other stuff to read or listen to
John Lewis’s last essay and watch President Obama’s eulogy or read the transcript
“Translating an Uprising…. And Other Things That Are Not My Job – #BLM Guest Post”
Black Reproductive Justice Policy Agenda
Great interview with Angela Davis by Ava Duvernay
On Being podcast with Therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem
A season of the Nocturnist dedicated to Black voices in healthcare
WaPo article re: MLK’s Letter from a Birmingham jail
podcast episode about the history and meaning of Juneteenth
The 1619 Project and associated podcast, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Roxane Gay’s “Bad Feminist” and associated TED talk
Academic article on color-blind racism in pandemic times
OpEd about discrimination against people from the AAPI community
AAPI College Student Resources
An article on microaggression
The Wampanoag’s 400 years of regret and day of mourning
Places to buy things
App to identify Black-owned restaurants, EatOkra.
Another list of Black owned businesses in the US
SF Chronicle also made a list of Black-owned restaurants for the Bay Area.
List of Black womxn-owned businesses
Lists of Black-owned businesses to support: wellness products, Beauty products, products ethically made in Africa
Black-owned bookstores with online ordering; options include: loyaltybookstores.com, mahoganybooks.com; https://www.cafeconlibrosbk.com; http://www.semicolonchi.com; esowonbookstore.com; goodbooksatl.com
Places to donate
Combating racism
Afghanistan
Haiti
Texas
To help folks in Texas get access to the care they need: this link splits donations between 9 funds: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/txfunds
Donate to the legal battle to fight the Texas law in the courts at
Whole Woman’s Health Alliance: https://www.wholewomanshealthalliance.org/
Center for Reproductive Rights: https://bit.ly/3hdJHhJ
and ACLU: https://bit.ly/3t96m3t