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State Crime, Native Americans and COVID-19
- “State Crime, Native Americans and COVID-19” by Laura Finley can be found here
- We realize it is a longer article PLEASE NOTE that we are only suggesting that you read the sections on Structural Disadvantage and AI/NA Peoples, COVID-19, AI/NA Peoples and State Crime
Racial disparities in COVID-19
- a. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/outcry-over-racial-data-grows-as-virus-slams-black-americans - this includes data analyzed by the AP based on state and local government data
- b. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/08/830030932/cdc-hospital-data-point-to-racial-disparity-in-covid-19-cases This highlights CDC data
- c. https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/04/08/coronavirus-impact-communities-color-stay-at-home-advisory-boston/ This highlights prisoner health and also crossover populations with health providers in this population
Indigenous and Native Peoples
- Tachine, A. & McKinley Johns Brayboy, B. (February 2018). “I am concerned for our Native community”: Ways to support Native college students facing societal fears. Medium.
- Shotton, H.J. & Starr Minthorn, R. (2018). Repositioning the Norms of the Academy: RESEARCH AS WISDOM from Reclaiming Indigenous research in higher education. Rutgers University Press. *Please be sure to sign into your Brown Gmail account to access this reading.*
- Bird, M. E. (2002). Health and indigenous people: Recommendations for the next generation. American Journal of Public Health.
Invisible Labor
- Williams June, Audrey. (November 2015). The Invisible Labor of Minority Professors. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
- Edwards, B. (February 2018). Women and Men of Color Pay an ‘Emotional Tax’ at Work That’s Detrimental to Their Overall Health and Ability to Thrive: Report. The Root.
- Matthew, P. (November 2016). What Is Faculty Diversity Worth to a University?. The Atlantic.
Implicit/Unconscious Bias
- Nordell, J. (March 2017). Is This How Discrimination Ends?. The Atlantic.
- For more examples of implicit bias: Stories of Battling Unconscious Bias
- Payne, K., Niemi, L., Doris, J.M. (March 2018). How to Think about "Implicit Bias". The Scientific American.
- Blair, I. V., Steiner, J. F., & Havranek, E. P. (2011). Unconscious (implicit) bias and health disparities: where do we go from here?. The Permanente Journal, 15(2), 71.
Ableism
- Sensoy, Ö. & DiAngelo, R. (2012). Understanding Privilege Through Ableism. In Is everyone really equal?: An introduction to key concepts in critical social justice education (pp. 81-101). NY: Teachers College Press.
- Eli Clare. (2015). The Mountain. In Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation (pp. 1-13). Durham: Duke University Press. *this chapter mentions sexual assault in the section titled "III: Home"
Environmental Racism and Justice
- Bullard, R. D. (1999). Dismantling environmental racism in the USA. Local Environment, 4(1), 5-19.
- Shamus, K.J. (March 2016). How race, class set the stage for Flint water crisis. The Detroit Free Press.
- Owens, C. (January 2016). Providence Maps Show “Apartheid Lines” of Environmental Racism. Next City.
- Lombroso D. & Newkirk II, V. (June 2017). Environmental Racism Is the New Jim Crow. The Atlantic
Gender and Sexuality
- National Center for Transgender Equality. (2018). Understanding Non-Binary People: How to Be Respectful and Supportive.
- Sam Killermann. (2018). 30+ Examples of Heterosexual Privilege in the US. These dynamics are just a few examples of the privilege that heterosexual (or straight) people have. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, and queer people have a range of different experiences but cannot count on most of these conditions in their lives.
- Lourdes Ashley Hunter. (2018). All My Life I Had To Fight To Exist & How Trump Defines Gender Won’t Change That
Medical Mistrust
- Khullar, D. (2018). Do you trust the medical profession?. The New York Times.
- Goshua, A. (November 2018). Medical schools aren’t preparing doctors to serve trans and non-binary people. BMJ Opinion.
- Chuck, E. (May 2018). How training doctors in implicit bias could save the lives of black mothers. NBC News.*
*Please note this article contains descriptions of pregnancy-related trauma*