Library: Diversity, Equity &amp; Inclusion: Race &amp; Ethnicity

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Featured Books

Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care by Dayna Bowen Matthew
Publication Date: 2015
This book provides a proposal for reducing discrimination and unconscious racial and ethnic biases by white physicians, nurses and other health care personnel against minorities seeking medical services.
Seeing Patients: A Surgeon’s Story of Race and Medical Bias by Augustus A. White III
Publication Date: 2019
The author draws on his experience as a resident at Stanford Medical School, a combat surgeon in Vietnam, and head orthopedic surgeon at a top teaching hospital to make sense of the unconscious bias that riddles medical care, and to explore how we can do better in a diverse twenty-first-century America.
White Fragility: Why it's so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Publication Date: 2018
In this in-depth exploration, Antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.

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Journals

Websites

American Public Health Association (APHA), Advancing Racial Equity Webinar Series
This webinar series gives an in-depth look at racism as a driving force of the social determinants of health and equity. The series explores efforts to address systems, policies and practices designed to limit and shape opportunities for people of color.
American Public Health Association (APHA), Racism and Health
This collection includes APHA documents and policy statements, articles from the American Journal of Public Health, and links to resources from other organizations.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), COVID-19 Health Equity
Learn what the CDC is doing to advance health and vaccine equity for racial and ethnic minority groups.
Community Toolbox, Working Together for Racial Justice and Inclusion
This resource from the Center for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas includes sections on reducing racial prejudice, learning to be an ally and building culturally competent organizations.
EthnoMed
A joint program of the University of Washington Health Sciences Libraries and Harborview Medical Center’s Interpreter Services Department (ISD). It is a ethnic medicine website making information about culture, language, health, illness and community resources directly accessible to health care providers who see patients from different ethnic groups.
Racial Equity Tools
Provides tools, research, tips, curricula, and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working for racial justice at every level; in systems, organizations, communities, and the culture at large.
Robert Woods Johnson Foundation (RWJF), Race, Racism and Health
In connection with past and current RWJF programs aimed at reducing health disparities and advancing health equity, their research focuses on the connections between race, racism and health.
Think Cultural Health
This website features information, continuing education opportunities, resources, and more for health and health care professionals to learn about culturally and linguistically appropriate services, or CLAS.