Systemic racism has informed and exacerbated countless public health issues in communities of color. The management of chronic diseases like diabetes, compromised maternal and infant health, challenging access to insurance and care, nutritional constraints inherent in food deserts, untreated mental health illnesses, and violence and police brutality have all contributed to poor outcomes in the lives of marginalized people. Particularly for those in the health care fields, this is a start:
- Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals by Jill A. Fisher (2020)
- Black Man in White Coat by Damon Tweedy, MD. (2016)
- Faculty of Color in the Health Professions: Stories of Survival and Success by Dena Hassouneh (2017)
- Medical Stigmata: Race, Medicine, and the Pursuit of Theological Liberation by Kirk A. Johnson (2018)
- Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care by Dayna Bowen Matthew (2018)
- Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury & Healing by Dr. Joy Degruy (2017)
- Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland by Jonathan Metzl, MD. (2020)
- The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World by Michael Marmot (2015)
- Race, Ethnicity, and Health: A Public Health Reader, edited by Thomas A. LaVeist and Lydia A. Issac (2012)
- The Impact of Demographics on Health and Health Care: Race, Ethnicity and Other Social Factors by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld (2010)
- Black & Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism by John Hoberman (2012)
- On Race and Medicine: Insider Perspectives by Richard Garcia, M.D. (editor) (2015)
- Defining Moments of a Free Man from a Black Stream: A Memoir, by Dr. Frank L. Douglas (2019)