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Books
Addiction/Substance Use Disorder
Climate/Culture
- Neff, Kristin. Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
- Dweck, Carol. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Eliminating Race-Based Medicine Resources
- Dorothy Roberts: Fatal Invention book especially intro and chapters 1, 4, 6. Also free on the UMN Library website here
Indigenous Communities
- Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota — a book that paints an intricate narrative of the Dakota people over the centuries in their traditional homelands and the stories behind the profound connections to the land that holds true today
- Educate yourself on the history of settler colonialism and genocide in the United States by reading (or listening to) An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Medical Racism
- Washington, Harriet. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
- Roberts, Dorothy. Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century
- Braun, Lundy. Breathing Race Into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics
- Saini, Angela. Superior: The Return of Race Science
- Hoberman, John. Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism
Racism
- Fields, Karen and Fields, Barbara. Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
- Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. How to Be an Antiracist
- Oluo, Ijeoma. So You Want to Talk about Race.
- Bonilla Silva, Eduardo. Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America
- Singh, Annalise. The Racial Healing Handbook
- Ally Essential Reading/Education List Final, which is a step-wise learning guide
- BIPOC Support and Further Development final - coordinated by Drs. Adriana Dhawan, Taj Mustapha, and Molly Wyman, UMN Division of General Internal Medicine WIM
Reproductive Care and Reproductive Justice
- Ross and Solinger. Reproductive Justice, Volume 1: An Introduction
- Bridges, Khiara. Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization
- Roberts, Dorothy. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
- Davis, Dana Ain. Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth
- Chinyere Oparah, Julia and Bonaparte, Alicia. Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth
- Cooper Owens, Deidre. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Trauma
- Burke Harris, Nadine. The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
- Van Dernoot Lipsky, Laura. Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others
- Van Der Kolk, Bessel. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
- Menakem, Resmaa. My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
- Singh, Annalise. The Racial Healing Handbook
- Gerber, Megan. Trauma-informed Healthcare Approaches: A Guide for Primary Care
Weight Stigma/Size Diversity
- Strings, Sabrina. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
- Harrison, Christy. Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating
- Gaudiani, Jennifer. Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders
- Bacon, Linda and Aphramor, Lucy. Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight
- Resch, Elyse and Tribole, Evelyn. Intuitive Eating, 4th Edition: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach
- Identifying and Countering White Supremacy Culture in Food Systems - Duke World Food Policy Center
White Studies and White Supremacy
- Wellman, David. Portraits of White Racism (Revised)
- Saad, Layla. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
- Irving, Debbie. Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race
- DiAngelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism. What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy - Revised Edition
- Tochluk, Shelly. Witnessing Whiteness
Articles
Addiction/Substance Use Disorder
Climate Justice
- Asthma and Air Pollution Emissions in the Twin Cities, a report by Urszula Parfieniuk
Eliminating Race-Based Medicine Resources
- Race as biology is fiction, racism as a social problem is real: Anthropological and historical perspectives on the social construction of race.
- Use of Race and Ethnicity in Biomedical Publication - JAMA
- On Racism: A New Standard For Publishing On Racial Health Inequities - Health Affairs
- Hidden in Plain Sight — Reconsidering the Use of Race Correction in Clinical Algorithms - NEJM
- From race-based to race-conscious medicine: how anti-racist uprisings call us to act - The Lancet
- What Role Should Race Play in Medicine? Scientific American - Scientific American
- What's Race Got to Do With It? - Minnesota Family Physician
- Race Is Real, But It’s Not Genetic - Discover Magazine
Inclusive Language and Equity Lens Framework Guides
Inclusive language links
- Equity and Inclusion Vocabulary and Inclusive Language
- Guidelines for Inclusive Journalism
- Mapping Our Roles in Social Change Ecosystems (2020)
- Racial Equity 5 P's Framework - Multnomah County
- Empathic Inquiry - a conversational approach to social needs screening, was developed by Oregon Primary Care Association to promote partnership, affirmation and patient engagement through social needs screening
- Fenway Health: Health Care Is A Right, Not A Privilege. | The mission of Fenway Health is to enhance the wellbeing of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and all people in our neighborhoods and beyond through access to the highest quality health care, education, research and advocacy.
- Recommendations for how clinicians can support the mental health of transgender people
- Gender minority stress treatment principles for clinicians:
- Normalize adverse impact of gender minority stress
- Facilitate emotional awareness, regulation, and acceptance
- Empower assertive communication
- Restructure minority stress cognitions
- Validate unique strengths of transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) people
- Foster supportive relationships and community
- Affirm healthy, rewarding expressions of gender
Indigenous Communities
- “On Native American culture and history in Minnesota” from On Being:
- Bdote Memory Map – a wonderful resource for the Twin Cities that weaves together oral histories of important sites in the area.
- Native Land Map — a community-powered resource that helps identify what Native land you are on
- United States Tribal Nations - For an overview of Tribal Nations and their historical relationship to the U.S. government, read this primer from the National Congress of American Indians
- #StandingRockSyllabus – NYC Stands with Standing Rock - a thoughtful syllabus created in solidarity with efforts at Standing Rock to resist the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline
- Why Treaties Matter – a comprehensive and thoughtful exploration of the history of treaties and land seizure in Minnesota
- Why Treaties Matter Resource Guide – a comprehensive list of additional resources specific to Minnesota
- Attend a sacred sites tour – Native-led sacred sites tours can be a fantastic orientation to the land that makes up the Twin Cities. Two options are Healing Minnesota Stories and Learning from Place: Bdote
Medical Racism
- Syllabus: A History of Anti-Black Racism in Medicine
- Racism and Health: Evidence and Needed Research - Annual Review of Public Health
- Structural racism and health inequities in the USA: evidence and interventions - The Lancet
- Is Racism a Fundamental Cause of Inequalities in Health? - Annual Review of Sociology
- Getting Our Knees Off Black People’s Necks: An Anti-Racist Approach to Medical Care - Health Affairs Blog
- Critical Race Theory, Race Equity, and Public Health: Toward Antiracism Praxis
- Racism and Health I: Pathways and Scientific Evidence - David R. Williams, Selina A. Mohammed, 2013
- Structural Racism and Supporting Black Lives — The Role of Health Professionals
- Coronavirus Disease Discriminates. Our Health Care Doesn't Have To | Opinion - Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones
- Medicine and Race: AMS Annotated Bibliography
- Helpful infographics about health equity topics in pediatrics
- Black Maternal Health
Racism
- Opinion | Racism's Hidden Toll
- Levels of racism: a theoretic framework and a gardener's tale
- Race: A Starting Place - Brooke Cunningham, MD PhD
- Seeing the Water: Seven Values Targets for Anti-Racism Action - Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones
- Resources for BIPOC individuals
- Asian-Americans for cross-racial solidarity in medicine - article on KevinMD by Angela Y. Zhang, Paul Park, Russyan Mark Mabeza, Rohan Khazanchi, and Ryan Huerto, MD, MPH
- Surviving & Resisting Hate: A Toolkit for People of Color
Reproductive Care and Reproductive Justice
Responding and Interventions of Discrimination Harassment or Microaggressions
- Interrupting Microaggressions - Greta Kenney
- Discriminatory and Sexually Inappropriate Remarks from Patients and Their Challenge to Professionalism - Am J Med
- Approaches for Residents to Address Problematic Patient Behavior: Before, During, and After the Clinical Encounter - JGME
- How to Be an Active Bystander When You See Casual Racism
- Traumatic Impact of Racism on Young People
- Liberation in the Exam Room: Racial Justice and Equity in Health Care - Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- Mind the Gap - A resource of images of skin of color with many common skin diseases
- Applying Antiracism in Clinical Practice - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Trauma
Weight Stigma/Size Diversity
White Studies and White Supremacy
Primers
- Minnesota Doctors for Health Equity offers the following primers with foundational knowledge and numerous, trusted resources on core health equity topics:
- Primer 1-Start Here: What is Health Equity?
- Primer 2: Racism and Anti-Racism
- Primer 3: Social Drivers of Health
- Primer 4: Implicit Bias
- Primer 5: Historical and Cultural Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care
- Primer 6: Advocacy and Civic Engagement
- A guide to health equity language, narrative, and concepts — AMA and the AAMC Center for Health Justice
Webinars
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Racism: The Ultimate Underlying Condition, APHA webinar
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The Institute for Antiracism in Medicine: Home - View the Video of the webinar How to Be a Healthcare Antiracist.
- UMN Medical School Dean's Special Lecture Series: Addressing Whiteness and White Accountability
- Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility Quie and Peterson Global Health Lecture - "Charting the Path to Health Equity: A 20/20 Review of the Political Determinants of Health"
Outside websites and organizations to explore
- The Institute for Antiracism in Medicine: Home - View the Video of the webinar How to Be a Healthcare Antiracist
Videos
- Antiracism animation series
- Race: The Power of an Illusion website features clips and videos
- David R. Williams: How racism makes us sick | TED Talk
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story | TED Talk
- Dr. Camara Jones' TEDX: Allegories on Race and Racism
- Dr. Camara Jones Explains the Cliff of Good Health
Eliminating Race-Based Medicine Resources
- Dorothy Roberts’ TED talk
- Using the Tools of the Master: Critiquing and Countering Racism in Clinical Practice December 8, 2020 Panelists: Michelle Munyikwa, PhD & Angela Zhang
Indigenous Communities Resources
- #HonorNativeLand — US Department of Arts and Culture - A Guide and Call to Acknowledgment
- Dakota 38 – a documentary that follows Native riders on a 330-mile healing journey from South Dakota to Minnesota in honor of those lost in the largest mass execution in U.S. history
CWIMS Comprehensive Gender Healthcare Resources
- Vanessa Goes To the Doctor - a video highlighting the experiences of a transwoman navigating healthcare
Grand Rounds
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Grand Rounds UMN SOM - Bias in Our Learning and Work Environment - Drs. Taj Mustapha and Amanda Termuhlen
This grand rounds presentation provides a breakdown of bias as well as practical applications of restorative justice in an academic medicine environment. - UMN Medical School Dean's Special Lecture Series: Comprehensive Gender Care Panel
Listen
- Code Switch (NPR)
- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- Scene on Radio: Season 2: Seeing White and Season 3: Men
- Who Belongs from The Othering & Belonging Institute
- A Different Kind of Leader with Giselle Corbie-Smith - “We capture insights from diverse leaders in health care, public health, and academic settings so that our organizations are in a stronger position to grow, innovate, and meet the challenges of our day.”
- Flip the Script by Apple Podcasts with Max Tiako
- Matter of Fat: MoF Mini: Fat Liberation — Matter of Fat, MoF Mini: Fatphobia — Matter of Fat, MoF Mini: Body Positivity — Matter of Fat
- E94: 8 Ways White Bias Can Misdirect Food System Work | Duke Sanford World Food Policy Center
- Health Affairs Podcast - Dr. Brooke Cunningham, "This, Too, Is What Racism Feels Like"
- Health Affairs Podcast - Dr. Brooke Cunningham, “What are we going to do about it?”: An essay on racism and health inequities
- Food Psych #259: From Disordered Eating to Radical Belonging with Lindo Bacon, Plus How to Share the Anti-Diet Message with Shelby Gordon — Christy Harrison - Intuitive Eating Dietitian, Anti-Diet Author, & Health at Every Size Advocate - Food Psych Programs
Clinical Problem Solvers
- Episode 120: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 1 – Racism, Police Violence, and Health
- Episode 140: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 2 with Edwin Lindo
- Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives
The Curbsiders
- #222 Addressing Anti-Black Racism in Medicine
- #218 Trauma-Informed Care with Megan Gerber MD
- #216 Homeless Healthcare
- #155 LGBT Health in Primary Care from SGIM 2019
- #158 Medicine and Incarceration w/Emily Wang, Aaron Fox, Jon Giftos
- #125 Hidden Curriculum
Eliminating Race-Based Medicine Resources
- Examining Racism in Medicine | UW School Of Medicine
- Flip the Script: Look up 'Bigot Your Way to Success' on Apple Podcasts
- Episode 140: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 2 with Edwin Lindo
Indigenous Communities Resources
- All My Relations | HOME - podcast hosted by Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) and Adrienne Keene (Cherokee Nation) to explore our relationships— relationships to land, to our creatural relatives, and to one another
Groups, Activities, and More
Equity and Diversity Programming online through ECHO (Equity Certificate Hosted Online) via Zoom
RESOURCES BY TOPIC
Here is a list of all resources by topic:
What is health equity?
- Health equity primers from Minnesota Doctors for Health Equity
- Health equity language, narrative, and concepts from the AMA and the AAMC Center for Health Justice
What is race and what is racism?
- Race: The Power of an Illusion website and clips to videos
- Racism: The Ultimate Underlying Condition, APHA webinar
- Syllabus - a history of anti-black racism in medicine
- Opinion | Racism's Hidden Toll
- Gretakenney-interrupting-microaggressions
- A series of videos on YouTube about racism and antiracism
How can I fight racism and become an antiracist?
- Racial Justice Resources page created by the Race, Indigeneity, Gender & Sexuality Studies Initiative
- Responding to Racism from Patients, Families, and Guests Towards Residents and Practicing Psychiatrists Webinar
- Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources
- Justice in June copy for reference
- The 30-Day Justice Plan - OZY | A Modern Media Company
- Gretakenney-interrupting-microaggressions
White supremacy and white privilege: What are they and what can I do?
- White Supremacy Culture - Dismantling Racism
- "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" by Peggy McIntosh
- Backlash after a deeply misguided and erroneous JAMA podcast on white supremacy and how it illuminates structural racism - read this fascinating account
What are some ways I can get involved?
How can I align with social change?
What is the impact of race and racism on health?
- Opinion | Racism's Hidden Toll
- Syllabus: A History of Anti-Black Racism in Medicine
- Racism and Health: Evidence and Needed Research | Annual Review of Public Health
- Structural racism and health inequities in the USA: evidence and interventions - The Lancet
- Is Racism a Fundamental Cause of Inequalities in Health? - Annual Review of Sociology
- Medicine and Race: AMS Annotated Bibliography
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