Cultural Diversity and Anti-Racism: Faculty Development Resources - Introductory

In this mix of live-action and animation, a young boy of color navigates bias in the classroom and its impact on his future. The film also includes the voices of other children sharing their experiences, at school and at home, as they grow older

Our brains are wired to make assumptions, which can sometimes be off base. We think it's an honest mistake; science calls it a blind spot.

Institute for Healthcare Improvement - IHI

Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones,a family physician and epidemiologist by training, Dr. Jones' lifelong passion has been naming and addressing the impacts of racism on the health and wellbeing of the nation. In a 2002 videotaped interview for the CityMatCH Annual Urban MCH Leadership Conference, Dr. Jones shared a simple yet remarkably profound allegory she grew and nurtured to help people come to a place of understanding about the many layers and nuances of institutionalized, personally-mediated, and internalized racism.

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You, Me And Them: Experiencing Discrimination In America

Chest. 2020 Dec; 158(6): 2688–2694.

SOCS/NEJM VISUAL DX Virtual Series

Ethn Dis 2018 Aug 9;28(Suppl 1):235-240

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In the US, Black women are nearly 300 percent more likely to die as a result of childbirth than white women. Sharing appalling statistics on maternal mortality as well as her own tragic story of loss, Wanda Irving explains how racism and bias in health care minimizes and dismisses Black women's pain -- and makes a personal plea for leaders in the medical community to take steps toward reform.

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Race is a social—not a biological—construct. There is no gene or cluster of genes common to all blacks or all whites. Nevertheless, the concept of race has been used to create statuses and stratification. Throughout history, perceptions of race have changed over time to justify who should have privilege and who should not. Like race, racial identity can also be fluid. But the social, political, and economic implications of race remain rigidly entrenched. As a biracial woman...

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

N Engl J Med 2021 Mar 4;384(9):872-878

Lancet 2017 Apr 8;389(10077):1453-1463

Harriet A. Washington discusses the history of racism in medicine and research with Vabren Watts, Health Affairs’ director of health equity, and Aletha Maybank, chief health equity officer and senior vice president of the American Medical Association. Washington is the author of several books on medical ethics, including Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present.

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