Center for Diversity and Inclusion: Diversity and Health Resources

Anti-racist resources from the Center for Diversity and Inclusion

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Resources on Race, Racism and Health Disparities

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resource Books

• Bowen Matthew, D. (2015). Just medicine, a cure for racial inequality in American health care.  New York:  NYU Press
• Brown, J. (2019). How to be an Inclusive Leader. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
• Diangelo, R. (2018).  White fragility: Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism.  Boston:  Beacon Press.
• Eberhardt, J.L. (2019).  Biased:  Uncovering the hidden prejudice that shapes what we see, think, or do.  New York:  Viking.
• Johnson, A. G.  (2006).  Privilege, power and difference, second edition.  New York:  McGraw-Hill.
• Kendi, I.K. (2019).  How to be an antiracist.  New York:  One World. 
• Irving, Debby.  (2014).  Waking up white: and finding myself in the story of race.  Chicago:  Elephant Room Press.
• McGhee, H. (2021).  The Sum of Us:  What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together.  One World.   
• Metzl, J.M. (2019).  Dying of whiteness:  How the politics of racial resentment is killing America's heartland.  New York:  Basic Books. 
• Saad, L. F. (2020). Me and white supremacy: Combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor.  Sourcebooks.
• Skloot, R. (2011).  The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks.  New York:  Crown Publishers. 
• Steele, C.M. (2010). Whistling Vivaldi:  How stereotypes affect us and what we can do.  New York:  W.W. Norton & Co.
• Sue, D.W.  (2015).  Race talk and the conspiracy of silence: Understanding and facilitating difficult dialogues on race.  Hoboken, NJ:  John Wiley & Sons.
• Tweedy, Damon. (2015).  Black man in a white coat.  New York:  Picador.
• Washington, H. A. (2008). Medical Apartheid: The dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present.  New York:  Harlem Moon.
• Wilkerson, I. (2020). Caste:  The Origins of our Discontents.  Random House.
• Williams, D. (2013).  Strategic Diversity Leadership:  Activating Change and Transformation in Higher Education.  Stylus Publishing. 
• White, A. (2011). Seeing patients:  Unconscious bias in health care. Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press.