Racial Justice Resources

 

• MGH and Mass General Brigham Resources
  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion on Partners Pulse (Mass General Brigham Intranet)
    • Scroll down for Recovering our Breath Sessions

  • MGH Diversity Initiatives page on Apollo

• Implicit Bias
  • Take the Black/White Implicit Association Test through Project Implicit 
• Structural Racism
  • Structural Racism Discussion Panel Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone hosts Congresswoman Pressley, D.A. Rollins, and other leaders to discuss racism and next steps for change. June 23, 2020 (Video, 85 mins)

 

• Anti-Racism
  • How to Be An Antiracist (book) by Dr. Ibram X Kendi
  • Take the 21 Day Racial Equity Challenge
  • Fighting Anti-Blackness Resource List,  from Harvard Women in Tech and Allies 
  • Anti-Racism Resources for White People - Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein, May 2020
  • Have 10, 25, or 45 minutes a day to better understand racism and advocate for racial justice? Check out this Justice in June document that breaks it all down for you! http://ow.ly/tBZj50AfoMU
    (NASW MA)
    
• Whiteness and White Privilege
  • Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
  • White Fragility by Dr Robin DiAngelo
  • My White Friend Asked Me on Facebook to Explain White Privilege. I Decided to Be Honest - Yes! Magazine
  • Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man- Let Your Guard Down and Listen, Emmanuel Acho, video
• Health Care
  • Naming Racism- COVID Health Disaparities and Racism in Health Care, Radcliffe Institute, Dr. Camara Jones and Dr. David Williams, June 5, 2020 (video, 60 mins)
  • Race, Racism, and Health: Challenges and Opportunities-The House that Racism Built, Dr. David Williams’ 2016 lecture (video, 57 mins)
  • Racism and Health: Evidence and Need, David R. Williams, Jourdyn A. Lawrence,and Brigette A. Davis, Annual Review of Public Health, Vol. 40:105-125
  • Structural Racism and Health Inequities in the USA: Evidence and Interventions, Zinzi D Bailey et al, Lancet, 2017 Apr 8;389(10077):1453-1463(free, but login required)
• Clinical
  • White Therapists, Here's What Your Black Colleagues Want You to Know, Psychotherapy Networker
  • Black Lives Matter: Anti-Racism Resources for Social Workers and Therapists (Resource list), Social Work.Career.
    • Excerpt:
    Chart is from above and was adapted by Andrew M. Ibrahim MD, MSc from “Who Do I Want to Be During COVID-19” chart (original author unknown) with some ideas pulled from Ibram X. Kendi’s work.

• History/Context
• 1619 podcast - NYT’s Nikole Hannah-Jones. How slavery transformed America, connecting past and present
• Code Switch podcast - NPR's Gene Demby and Shereen Marisol Maraji reflect on the deaths of hundreds of black people who have been killed in police custody since 2014
• Op-Ed: Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, LATimes
• I don't need 'love' texts from my white friends. Ineed them to fight anti-blackness. Chad Sanders. NYT Opinion.
• Jane Elliott on Her "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise" and Fighting Racism https://youtu.be/f2z-ahJ4uws (video, 7 mins)
• James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley, video
• Black Parents Explain How to Deal With the Police, video 
• Additional Resource Lists and Book Recommendations
  • Resources from the Boston Liberation Health Group
  • How We Get Free, ed. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
  • Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Angela Y. Davis
  • Black Skin. Whit Masks, Frantz Fanon
  • The End of Policing, Alex S. Vitale
  • So you want to talk about race, Ijeoma Oluo
  • No Facist USA! Hilary Moor and James Tracy
  • The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind, Ed Claudia Rankine et al
  • Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
  • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in Americca, Ibram X. Kendi
  • (See also Whiteness section above)

 

- Sources include MGH Department of Medicine anti-racism activities and resources for June 10, 2020 and MGH General Executive Committee. Additional contributions from Melissa Alao.

 

Additional suggestions welcome; please forward to Ellen Forman