Resources Recommended by the Townsend Lab
Image above from #ShutdownSTEM https://www.shutdownstem.com/
View or Participate in the Racial Justice Challenge, put together as a LibGuide by Fogler Library, UMaine:
ARTICLES
Articles re: medicine and health disparities
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1811499
Racism and Bias Reading List
J. Marion Sims – father of gynecology who experimented on slaves
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/04/j-marion-sims/558248/
Medical decision tools disadvantage Black patients
Racial Bias in Pain Assessment:
Racism in medicine isn’t an abstract notion
Dr. Ossian Sweet’s Black Life Mattered
Dr. Ossian Sweet’s Black Life Mattered
General:
Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus
https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/582580/
https://www.idealist.org/amp/en/careers/reading-list-promote-racial-equity
https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/361631/
Schomburg Center (NYPL) Black Liberation Reading List
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/06/09/schomburg-center-black-liberation-reading-list
Anti-Racist resource list
The Devastation of Black Wall Street
The Devastation of Black Wall Street
Science/Research/Academia
Systemic Changes to Increase African Americans with Bachelor’s Degrees in Physics and Astronomy (https://www.aip.org/sites/default/files/aipcorp/files/teamup-full-report.pdf)
Disturbing resilience of scientific racism
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/disturbing-resilience-scientific-racism-180972243/
Neuroscience themed resources on racial biases and #shutdownstem
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