Websites, Books, and Essays

Websites

• Racial Equity Tools Glossary
  Words and their multiple uses reflect the tremendous diversity that characterizes our society. Indeed, universally agreed upon language on issues relating to racism is nonexistent. We discovered that even the most frequently used words in any discussion on race can easily cause confusion, which leads to controversy and hostility. It is essential to achieve some degree of shared understanding, particularly when using the most common terms. In this way, the quality of dialogue and discourse on race can be enhanced.
• JHU Diversity Leadership Council
  Comprised of about 50 members from across all nine divisions of Johns Hopkins, the Diversity Leadership Council advises university President Ronald Daniels on matters of diversity and inclusion. It encourages programs that are supporting diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity at the university and health system and urges progress in areas where the institutions need to improve.

Books & Essays

• National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities: The Science of Health Disparities Research Textbook
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
• Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education by Noliwe Rooks
• Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City by Antero Pietila
• The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space In America by Lawrence Brown, PhD
• The Lines Between Us by Lawrence Lanahan
• The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, June 2014
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
• The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics by Angie Maxwell and Angie Maxwell
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• 7 Anti-Racist Books Recommended by Educators and Activists New Yorker | June 5, 2020
• 5 Books About Black Movements and Systemic Racism in America Lawrence Ware | June 3, 2020
• Racism: Science & Tools for the Public Health Professional, Edited by: Chandra L. Ford, PhD, Derek M. Griffith, PhD, Marino A. Bruce, PhD and Keon L. Gilbert, DrPH | August 2019
• An Antiracist Reading List, Ibram X. Kendi on books to help America transcend its racist heritage. The New York Times, May 29, 2019
• The Power to Heal: Civil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform America's Health Care System, David Barton Smith | July 1, 2016
• Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs | October 2012
• On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life, Sara Ahmed | March 2012
• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Illustrated Edition, Harriet A. Washington | January 8, 2008
• Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired. Black Women's Health Activism in America, 1890-1950, Susan L. Smith | 1995
• How To Be An Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi | August 13, 2019
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo, PhD | 2018
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America, Ira Katznelson | 2005
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander | January 7, 2020
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein | 2018
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning, Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi | March 10, 2020
• So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo | 2018
• Redefining Realness, Janet Mock | December 2, 2014
• Raising Our Hands, Jenna Arnold | June 23, 2020
• Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism, Reginald Horsman | 1986
• Me and White Supremacy, Layla F. Saad | January 2020
• Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, Andrea J. Ritchie | August 2017