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August 11, 2020

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection builds white expectations for racial comfort while at the same time lowering the ability to tolerate racial stress.

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The Color of Law

August 11, 2020

In The Color of Law (published by Liveright in May 2017), Richard Rothstein 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.

Author: Richard Rothstein

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Stamped From the Beginning

August 11, 2020

In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. Stamped from the Beginning uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to offer a window into the contentious debates between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists. From Puritan minister Cotton Mather to Thomas Jefferson, from fiery abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison to brilliant scholar W.E.B.

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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race

August 11, 2020

Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about enabling communication across racial and ethnic divides. These topics have only become more urgent as the national conversation about race is increasingly acrimonious.

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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation

August 11, 2020

Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge—a tradition that continues today within some black populations. It reveals how blacks have historically been prey to grave-robbing as well as unauthorized autopsies and dissections.

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Birthing Justice: Black women, birthing, and Childbirth

August 11, 2020

There is a global crisis in maternal health care for black women. In the United States, black women are over three times more likely to perish from pregnancy-related complications than white women; their babies are half as likely to survive the first year. Many black women experience policing, coercion, and disempowerment during pregnancy and childbirth and are disconnected from alternative birthing traditions.

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Battling Over Birth: Black Women and the Maternal Health Care Crisis

August 11, 2020

Battling Over Birth also provides solutions. The report shares positive experiences by black women, and identifies best practices based on their experiences. It makes a series of recommendations, including community accountability boards to hold hospitals accountable; increased access to midwifery and doula-care; recruitment and training of more health-care professionals of color; culturally-competent, empowering prenatal and postpartum care; greater access to home birth and birth centers; and a sharp reduction in the use of C-sections. 

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Papers

May 31, 2020

Birthing Justice: Black Women, Birthing, and Childbirth 

There is a global crisis in maternal health care for black women. In the United States, black women are over three times more likely to perish from pregnancy-related complications than white women; their babies are half as likely to survive the first year. Many black women experience policing, coercion, and disempowerment during pregnancy and childbirth and are disconnected from alternative birthing traditions.

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Black Mamas Matter Alliance:
Setting the Standard for Holistic Care of and for Black Women

May 31, 2020

The pervasive crisis of Black maternal mortality is making headlines. Nationally, Black women are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women. Black infants are over two times more likely to die in their first year of life than white infants.This epidemic of Black mothers and infants having the highest risk for maternal and infant mortality has persisted for years. In fact, Black women’s risk of maternal mortality has remained higher than white women’s risk for the past six decades.

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Black Women’s Maternal Health:
A Multifaceted Approach to Addressing Persistent and Dire Health Disparities

May 31, 2020

Black women in the United States experience unacceptably poor maternal health outcomes, including disproportionately high rates of death related to pregnancy or childbirth. Both societal and health system factors contribute to high rates of poor health outcomes and maternal mortality for Black women, who are more likely to experience barriers to obtaining quality care and often face racial discrimination throughout their lives.

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Fighting at Birth:
Eradicating the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap

May 31, 2020

The infant mortality rate is a key national indicator of population health. Despite technological advances in medicine and other health-related resources available to the average American, the infant mortality rate (IMR) in the United States is exceptionally high relative to other developed countries. For black infants, the numbers are devastatingly high. In 2013, the white IMR in the United States was five per 1000 live births —resembling economically advanced nations like New Zealand.

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Institute for Healthcare Improvement
The Role of Racism as a Core Patient Safety Issue

May 31, 2020
Maternal mortality rates in the US are rising, particularly among black women. This article describes three things health care leaders can do to understand the contributing causes of mortality, including racism, and factors to reduce inequities and improve safety in maternal health.
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The National Perinatal Task Force
Building a Movement to Birth a More Just and Loving

May 31, 2020

Statement on Gender

The National Perinatal Taskforce acknowledges that pregnant and parenting persons occupy a range of gendered identities, and that many do not identify as women or mothers. This report utilizes terms such as “woman” and “mother” as well as more gender inclusive language such as “pregnant person” or “parent,” although we acknowledge that the report may do so inconsistently.

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