Books
Race Equity 101
This document is designed to be used as a menu of tools to integrate racial equity into your existing practices. The tools in this document are organized by Government Alliance on Race and Equity's "Normalize, Organize, Operationalize" framework from GARE and Race Forward's "Actions to Advance Racial Equity". We recognize that change can take time, and often needs to be incremental. We also recognize that we need to operate with a sense of urgency and start somewhere. Each tool in this document can be applied to ongoing work in government agencies; we all need to self-reflect, cultivate our workforce, develop communication skills, improve quality of services, and hire or engage with HR. If we cannot apply a racial equity lens in these everyday activities, when do we start prioritizing racial equity? This work starts here, and it starts now.
Medical Apartheid
The book is a history of black America's maltreatment, as experimental subjects, at the hands of the medical establishment. It was published in 2006 and again in 2008 by Anchor Books.
Racism: Science and Tools for the Public Health Professional
This book was published by the American Public Health Press in 2019 and includes a Forward by Dr. Camara P. Jones. The book provides data, examples, communication tools and motivation to address racism, a recognized public health issue.
Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare
This book is by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) U.S. Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. It is edited by Brian D.. Smedley, Adrienne Y. Stith, and Alan R. Nelson, and was published by the National Academies Press in 2003.
The book presents the findings of the IOM study requested by Congress to assess differences in the kinds and quality of health care received by U.S. people from racial and ethnic minority groups.
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
In The Color of Law (published by Liveright in May 2017), written by Richard Rothstein who argues with exacting precision and fascinating insight how segregation in America-the incessant kind that continues to dog our major cities and has contributed to so much recent social strife-is the byproduct of explicit government policies at the local, state, and federal levels. Rothstein was a panelist on an Economic Policy Institute webinar, July 9, 2020, discussing his book and Reconstruction 2020: Valuing Black Lives and Economic Opportunities for All. The webinar can be seen on line. Rothstein also works at University of California, Berkeley
Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care
Offers an innovative plan to eliminate inequalities in American health care and save the lives they endanger.
Tackling health inequities through public health practice: Theory to Action
This book is edited by Richard Hoficher and Rajiv Bhatia in 2010 and compiled with support from NACCHO (National Association of County and City Health Officials) as a project initiative.
The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World
Michael Marmot, president of the World Medical Association authored this book on health and life inequities and the impact on health. He notes the tools and resources that exist to improve levels of health and the injustice in not using them.
Social Determinants of Health, 2nd Edition
Edited by Michael Marmot and Richard G. Wilkinson published by the Oxford University Press in 2011. This book has many international contributors including Dr. David R. Williams from the University of Michigan.