• Harriet Washington, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (2006)
• Alondra Nelson, The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome (2016)
• Alondra Nelson, Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination (2011)
• Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010); Also available: Audiobook
• Mona Hanna-Attisha, What the Eyes Don’t See (2018)
• James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (1962)
• James Baldwin, Go Tell it on the Mountain (1952); Also available: Audiobook
• Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
• Ta-nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (2015); Also available: Audiobook
• Ibram X Kendi, How to be an Antiracist (2019)
• Ibram X Kendi, Stamped from the beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (2017)
• Isabel Wilkerson, Caste 2020:The Origins of Our Discontents
• Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010)
• Pauli Muray, Song in a Weary Throat: an American pilgrimage (1987) 
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah (2013)
• Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2012)
• Hazel Carby, Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands (2019)
• Douglas Rae, The City Urbanism and its End (2003)
• Frank Snowdon, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (2019)
• Richard Rothstein, The Color of the Law: a Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America (2017)
• Craig Steven Wilder, Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities (2013) 

• Hardeman RR, Medina EM, Kozhimannil KB. Structural Racism and Supporting Black Lives - The Role of Health Professionals. N Engl J Med. 2016 Dec 1;375(22):2113-2115.
• Evans MK, Rosenbaum L, Malina D, Morrissey S, Rubin EJ. Diagnosing and Treating Systemic Racism. N Engl J Med. 2020 Jul 16;383(3):274-276.
• Cohan D. Racist Like Me - A Call to Self-Reflection and Action for White Physicians. N Engl J Med. 2019 Feb 28;380(9):805-807. 
• Herman AC. NEJM Perspectives, Editorial Address Systemic Racism. NEJM Journal Watch. 
• Editors. Your NEJM Group Today: Addressing Institutional Racism / Ticagrelor + Aspirin & Minor Stroke / Endocrinology & Urology Opportunities. NEJM Journal Watch. 
• Editors. Racism, Violence, and Commitment to Equity. NEJM Journal Watch. 
• Cohan D. Racist Like Me - A Call to Self-Reflection and Action for White Physicians. N Engl J Med. 2019 Feb 28;380(9):805-807. 
• Egede LE, Walker RJ. Structural Racism, Social Risk Factors, and Covid-19 - A Dangerous Convergence for Black Americans. N Engl J Med. 2020 Sep 17;383(12):e77. 
• Hardeman RR, Medina EM, Kozhimannil KB. Structural Racism and Supporting Black Lives - The Role of Health Professionals. N Engl J Med. 2016 Dec 1;375(22):2113-2115. 
• Bailey ZD, Feldman JM, Bassett MT. How Structural Racism Works - Racist Policies as a Root Cause of U.S. Racial Health Inequities. N Engl J Med. 2020 Dec 16.

• Hooper MW, Napoles AM, and Perez-Stable EJ. COVID-19 and Racial/Ethnic Disparities. JAMA. 2020;323(24):2466-2467.
• Chen JT, Krieger N. Revealing the Unequal Burden of COVID-19 by Income, Race/Ethnicity, and Household Crowding: US County Versus Zip Code Analyses. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2021;27 Suppl 1, COVID-19 and Public Health: Looking Back, Moving Forward:S43-S56.
• Tai DBG, Shah A, Doubeni CA, Sia IG, Wieland ML. The Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the United States. Clin Infect Dis. 2021;72(4):703-706.
• McPadden et al. incl. Farhadian S, Villaneuva, M,  Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes for 7,995 Patients with SARS-CoV-2 Infection. Submitted 2020. Unpublished data medRxiv preprint
• Price-Haywood EG, Burton J, Fort D, and Seoane L. Hospitalization and Mortality among Black Patients and White Patients with COVID-19. N Engl J Med 2020; 382:2534-43.
• Gross CP, Essien UR, Pasha S, Gross JR, Wang SY, Nunez-Smith M. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Population-Level Covid-19 Mortality. J Gen Intern Med. 2020;35(10):3097-3099. 
• Poteat T, Millett GA, Nelson LE, Beyrer C. Understanding COVID-19 risks and vulnerabilities among black communities in America: the lethal force of syndemics. Ann Epidemiol. 2020;47:1-3.

• Desruisseaux M and Tan T. Inclusion, Diversity, Access, and Equity (IDA&E) Roadmap: Infectious Diseases Society of America’s Commitment to the Future. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2020;222, Suppl 6:S523-S527

• Chapman EN, Kaatz A,Carnes M. Physicians and implicit bias: How doctors may unwittingly perpetuate health care disparities. J Gen Intern Med.2013;28(11):1504-1510.

• Walker, J. James Walker: Racism? You will be the judge. New Haven Register August 23, 2020.

• Cohan D. Racist Like Me - A Call to Self-Reflection and Action for White Physicians. N Engl J Med. 2019;380(9):805-807.

• Ansell DA and McDonald EK. Bias, Black Lives, and Academic Medicine. N Engl J Med 2015; 372:1087-1089.

• Cooper LA, Crews DC. COVID-19, racism, and the pursuit of health care and research worthy of trust. J Clin Invest. 2020;130(10):5033-5035.

• Sullivan, LS. Trust, Risk, and Race in American Medicine. The Hastings Center Report. 2020; 50(1):18-26.

• Hafferty FW, Franks R. The hidden curriculum, ethics teaching, and the structure of medical education. Acad Med. 1994 Nov;69(11):861-71.

• Gonzalez CM, Garba RJ, Liguori A, Marantz PR, McKee MD, Lypson ML. How to Make or Break Implicit Bias Instruction: Implications for Curriculum Development. Acad Med. 2018 Nov;93(11S Association of American Medical Colleges Learn Serve Lead: Proceedings of the 57th Annual Research in Medical Education Sessions):S74-S81

• Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, Smedley BD, Stith AY, Nelson AR, eds. Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2003.

• Bailey ZD, Krieger N, Agenor M, Graves J, Linos N, Bassett MT. Structural racism and health inequities in the USA: evidence and interventions. Lancet. 2017;389(10077):1453–1463.

• Ben J, Cormack D, Harris R, Paradies Y. Racism and health service utilisation: A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS One. 2017 Dec 18;12(12):e0189900.

• Schwei RJ, Kadunc K, Nguyen AL, Jacobs EA. Impact of sociodemographic factors and previous interactions with the health care system on institutional trust in three racial/ethnic groups. Patient Educ Couns. 2014;96(3):333–338.

• Williams DR, Lawrence JA, Davis BA, Vu C. Understanding how discrimination can affect health. Health Serv Res. 2019;54 Suppl 2:1374–1388.

• Janevic T, Piverger N, Afzal O, Howell EA. "Just Because You Have Ears Doesn't Mean You Can Hear"-Perception of Racial-Ethnic Discrimination During Childbirth. Ethn Dis. 2020 Sep 24;30(4):533-542. 

• Evans MK. Covid's Color Line - Infectious Disease, Inequity, and Racial Justice. N Engl J Med. 2020 Jul 30;383(5):408-410.
• Gamble VN. "There wasn't a lot of comforts in those days:" African Americans, public health, and the 1918 influenza epidemic. Public Health Rep. 2010 Apr;125 Suppl 3(Suppl 3):114-22. Erratum in: Public Health Rep. 2010 Jul-Aug;125(4):517.
• Grief SN, Miller JP. Infectious Disease Issues in Underserved Populations. Prim Care. 2017 Mar;44(1):67-85.
• Davis K, Stremikis K, Squires D, Schoen C. Mirror, mirror on the wall, 2014 update: how the U.S. health care system compares internationally. New York: Commonwealth Fund. 2014 June.

• Data Haven - Yale Mapping of COVID Epidemic
  Detailed site of epidemiologic, historic and current sociodemographic and inequity data in Connecticut with focus of New Haven and surrounding areas. Look specifically at:
  Abraham, M., Seaberry, C., Ankrah, J., et al (2019). Greater New Haven Community Index 2019. New Haven, CT: DataHaven. Available at ctdatahaven.org. © 2019 DataHaven ISBN 978-1-7340851-1-2 (paperback)
• Mapping the New Politics of Care
  Yale and Columbia collaboration-visual journey through the inequities and vulnerabilities that define the American landscape, using different definitions to describe communities at risk, down to the county level. Includes Centers for Disease Control’s Social Vulnerability Index (SVI*)
• NYC Health - Covid-19 Data
  Demography data and COVID risk from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Chapter 8: Race, Place, and Emergence of Spatial Hierarchy
  In: Rae D., ed. The City Urbanism and its End. 5th ed. Yale University Press; 2003:254-286. On the history of HOLC, redlining, and "urban renewal" in New Haven to provide important context to the discussion
• How Structural Racism Works - Racist Policies as a Root Cause of U.S. Racial Health Inequities 
  Bailey ZD, Feldman JM, Bassett MT. N Engl J Med. 2020 Dec 16.
• Not Even Past: Social Vulnerability and the Legacy of Redlining
  For further interest, please explore the linked visual document, which reconstructs redlining in 140 cities in the US, including New Haven in the 1937 and and documents resultant current social and health vulnerability scores, 80 years later.  To explore: Click on either the map of the rectangles on the chart to select an area in the past or today to view more details. At the top will appear selections from the HOLC area description for the selected area showing the HOLC's description of the area's population and character—very often clearly showing their racist perspectives
• Tour of The Hill neighborhood today (as seen via our dash-cam)
• Center for Disease Control. On the health effects of gentrification
• NCRC. On Serial Displacement
• Craig Steven Wilder explains how the HOLC institutionalized segregation
•  Not Even Past: Social Vulnerability and the Legacy of Redlining
  For further interest, please explore the linked visual document, which reconstructs redlining in 140 cities in the US, including New Haven in the 1937 and and documents resultant current social and health vulnerability scores, 80 years later.  To explore: Click on either the map of the rectangles on the chart to select an area in the past or today to view more details. At the top will appear selections from the HOLC area description for the selected area showing the HOLC's description of the area's population and character—very often clearly showing their racist perspectives

PBS documentary on neighborhood and racial injustice within 145 yards of the Yale Medical School and YNHH

The Hill

Articles about Film:

Bass P. New Film Reveals A Crime. Where’s The Villain? New Haven Independent. 2013 June.