Join us one Tuesday per quarter to discuss various aspects of racism and health.
Discussions take place from 12:00 - 1:00 pm PT. During the Spring 2023 quarter, we will be reading a selection of journal articles that cover the topic of Public Health Surveillance and Inequities. Additional articles may be sent at least one week prior to the meeting and can also be found here.
May 9, 2023 Topic: Public Health Surveillance & Inequities
Readings TBA
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Feb. 14, 2023 Topic: Reproductive Justice (Ethnicity & Disease Special Issue)
Ford, CL, Walker, V, Crear-Perry, J, Gipson, JD. Maternal and Infant Health Inequities, Reproductive Justice and COVID Addressed in RACE Series. Ethnicity & Disease, 32(4), 351-356.
de la Rocha, P, Sudhinaraset, M, Jones, NV, Kim, C, Cabral, A, Amani, B. A Qualitative Analysis on Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs and Issues During COVID-19 Using a Reproductive Justice Framework. Ethnicity & Disease, 32(4), 357-372.
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Nov. 15, 2022 Topic: Ethnicity & Disease Special Issue - R.A.C.E Series
Ford, CL, Walker, V, Crear-Perry, J, Gipson, JD. Maternal and Infant Health Inequities, Reproductive Justice and COVID Addressed in RACE Series. Ethnicity & Disease, 32(4), 351-356.
de la Rocha, P, Sudhinaraset, M, Jones, NV, Kim, C, Cabral, A, Amani, B. A Qualitative Analysis on Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs and Issues During COVID-19 Using a Reproductive Justice Framework. Ethnicity & Disease, 32(4), 357-372.
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May 10, 2022 Topic: Health Affairs Special Issue - Racism & Health
King, C.J., Buckley, B.O., Maheshwari, R., Griffith, D.M. (2022). Race, Place, and Structural Racism: A Review of Health and History in Washington, D.C. Health Affairs, 41(2), 273-280.
Sabado-Liwag, M.D., Manalo-Pedro, E., Taggueg, R., Bacong, A.M., Adia, A., Demanarig, D., Sumibcay, J.R., Valderama-Wallace, C., Oronce, C.I.A., Bonus, R., Ponce N.A. (2022). Addressing The Interlocking Impact of Colonialism and Racism on Filipinx/a/o American Health Inequities. Health Affairs, 41(2), 289-295.
Arambula Solomon, T.G., Bobelu Starks, R.R., Attakai, A., Molina, F., Cordova-Marks, F., Kahn-John, M., Antone, C.L., Flores Jr., M., Garcia, F. (2022). The Generational Impact of Racism on Health: Voices from American Indian Communities. Health Affairs, 41(2), 281-288.
Zambrana, R.E. and Williams, D.R. (2022). The Intellectual Roots of Current Knowledge on Racism and Health: Relevance to Policy and the National Equity Discourse. Health Affairs, 41(2), 163-170.
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April 12, 2022 Topic: Health Affairs Special Issue - Racism & Health
Hardeman, R. R., Homan, P. A., Chantarat, T., Davis, B. A., Brown, T. H. (2022). Improving The Measurement of Structural Racism to Achieve Antiracist Health Policy. Health Affairs, 41(2), 179-186.
Homan, P.A. and Brown, T. H. (2022). Sick And Tired of Being Excluded: Structural Racism in Disenfranchisement as a Threat to Population Health Equity. Health Affairs, 41(2), 219-227.
Sun, M., Oliwa, T., Peek, M. E., Tung, E. L. (2022). Negative Patient Descriptors: Documenting Racial Bias in The Electronic Health Record. Health Affairs, 41(2), 203-211.
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March 8, 2022 Topic: Health Equity and Surveillance
Douglas, M. D., Respress, E., Gaglioti, A. H., Li, C., Blount, M. A., Hopkins, J., ... & Mack, D. (2021). Variation in Reporting of the Race and Ethnicity of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Across US States: April 12, 2020, and November 9, 2020. American Journal of Public Health, 111(6), 1141-1148.
Sanner, L., Grant, S., Walter-McCabe, H., & Silverman, R. D. (2021). The Challenges of Conducting Intrastate Policy Surveillance: A Methods Note on County and City Laws in Indiana. American Journal of Public Health, 111(6), 1095-1098.
Guntuku, S. C., Purtle, J., Meisel, Z. F., Merchant, R. M., & Agarwal, A. (2021). Partisan Differences in Twitter Language Among US Legislators During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-sectional Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(6), e27300.
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February 8, 2022 Topic: Exposure and Resistance to Racism Online
Benjamin, R. (2019). Race after technology: Abolitionist tools for the new Jim code. Cambridge: Polity. Chapter 3: Coded Exposure: Is Visibility a Trap?
Bailey, M. (2021). Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (Vol. 18). NYU Press. Chapter 2: Transforming Misogynoir through Trans Advocacy.
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January 11, 2022 Topic: Twitter and Racism
Matamoros-Fernández, A., & Farkas, J. (2021). Racism, Hate Speech, and Social Media: A Systematic Review and Critique. Television & New Media, 22(2), 205–224.
Abd-Alrazaq, A., Alhuwail, D., Househ, M., Hamdi, M., & Shah, Z. (2020). Top Concerns of Tweeters During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Infoveillance Study. Journal of medical Internet research, 22(4), e19016.
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December 7, 2021 Topic: Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of Covid-19
Wallace, Rob. Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of Covid-19. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2020.
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November 2, 2021 Topic: Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of Covid-19
Wallace, Rob. Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of Covid-19. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2020.
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October 5, 2021 Topic: Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of Covid-19
Wallace, Rob. Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of Covid-19. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2020.
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May 11, 2021 Topic: Immigration, Xenophobia, and Health
Flores Morales J, Farago F. “Of Course We Need to Help the Undocumented Immigrants!”: Twitter Discourse on the (Un)deservingness of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Sociological Perspectives. April 2021.
Hswen Y, Xu X, Hing A, Hawkins JB, Brownstein JS, Gee GC. Association of "#covid19" Versus "#chinesevirus" With Anti-Asian Sentiments on Twitter: March 9-23, 2020. Am J Public Health. 2021;111(5):956-964.
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April 13, 2021 Topic: Structural Racism and COVID-19
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. 2021;384(8):768-773.
Rodriguez-Diaz CE, Guilamo-Ramos V, Mena L, et al. Risk for COVID-19 infection and death among Latinos in the United States: examining heterogeneity in transmission dynamics. Ann Epidemiol. 2020;52:46-53.e2.
Millett GA, Honermann B, Jones A, et al. White Counties Stand Apart: The Primacy of Residential Segregation in COVID-19 and HIV Diagnoses. AIDS Patient Care STDS. 2020;34(10):417-424.
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Topic: Residential Displacement and Birth Outcomes
Laster Pirtle, W. N. (2020). Racial Capitalism: A Fundamental Cause of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Inequities in the United States. Health Education & Behavior, 1-5.
Downing, J., & Bruckner, T. (2019). Subprime Babies: The Foreclosure Crisis and Initial Health Endowments. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 5(2), 123-140.
Hazekamp, C., Yousuf, S., Day, K., Daly, M. K., & Sheehan, K. (2020). Eviction and Pediatric Health Outcomes in Chicago. Journal of Community Health, 1-9.
Huynh, M., & Maroko, A. R. (2014). Gentrification and preterm birth in New York City, 2008–2010. Journal of urban health, 91(1), 211-220.
May 12, 2020
April 21, 2020
Topic: Medical Mistrust
Hua, C. L., Bardo, A. R., & Brown, J. S. (2018). Mistrust in physicians does not explain black-white disparities in primary care and emergency department utilization: the importance of socialization during the Jim Crow era. Journal of the National Medical Association, 110(6), 540-546.
Arnett, M. J., Thorpe, R. J., Gaskin, D. J., Bowie, J. V., & LaVeist, T. A. (2016). Race, medical mistrust, and segregation in primary care as usual source of care: findings from the exploring health disparities in integrated communities study. Journal of Urban Health, 93(3), 456-467.
Jaiswal, J., & Halkitis, P. N. (2019). Towards a more inclusive and dynamic understanding of medical mistrust informed by science. Behavioral Medicine, 45(2), 79-85.
Topic: Racialized Space and Black Chicago
Lipsitz, G. (2007). The racialization of space and the spatialization of race theorizing the hidden architecture of landscape. Landscape Journal, 26(1), 10-23.
Between the Great Migration and Growing Exodus: The Future of Black Chicago
February 11, 2020
Topic: Decolonizing Mental Health
Fanon, F. (1963). Concerning Violence pp. 35 - 106 in The wretched of the earth (Vol. 36). New York: Grove Press.
Mills, C. (2014). Necessary evils: When torture is treatment and violence is normal pp 86-107 in Decolonizing Global Mental Health: The Psychiatrization of the Majority World. New York: Routledge.
December 10, 2019
November 12, 2019
Topic: 400 Years of Inequality — AJPH Jamestown Special Issue
Hammonds, E. M., & Reverby, S. M. (2019). Toward a Historically Informed Analysis of Racial Health Disparities Since 1619.
Thomas, S. B., & Casper, E. (2019). The Burdens of Race and History on Black People’s Health 400 Years After Jamestown.
October 8, 2019
Topic: Health Disparities among Gender and Sexual Minority Youth
Wilson, B. D., Jordan, S. P., Meyer, I. H., Flores, A. R., Stemple, L., & Herman, J. L. (2017). Disproportionality and disparities among sexual minority youth in custody. Journal of youth and adolescence, 46(7), 1547-1561.
Wilson, B. D., & Kastanis, A. A. (2015). Sexual and gender minority disproportionality and disparities in child welfare: A population-based study. Children and Youth Services Review, 58, 11-17.
Topic: Racialized Time as a Social Determinant of Health
Borrell, L. N., & Vaughan, R. (2019). An AJPH Supplement Toward a Unified Research Approach for Minority Health and Health Disparities. American journal of public health, 109(S1), S6-S7.
Gee, G. C., Hing, A., Mohammed, S., Tabor, D. C., & Williams, D. R. (2019). Racism and the Life Course: Taking Time Seriously. American journal of public health, 109(S1), S43-S47.
Duran, D. G., & Pérez-Stable, E. J. (2019). Novel Approaches to Advance Minority Health and Health Disparities Research. American journal of public health, 109(S1), S8-S10.
February 14, 2019
Topic: Juvenile Justice
Crosby, S. D. (2016). Trauma‐Informed Approaches to Juvenile Justice: A Critical Race Perspective. Juvenile and Family Court Journal, 67(1), 5-18.
Saar, M. S., Epstein, R., Rosenthal, L., & Vafa, Y. (2015). The sexual abuse to prison pipeline: The girls' story.
December 13, 2018
November 8, 2018
Topic: Racial discrimination and epigenetics
Brody GH, Miller GE, Yu T, Beach SR, Chen E. Supportive Family Environments Ameliorate the Link Between Racial Discrimination and Epigenetic Aging: A Replication Across Two Longitudinal Cohorts. PsycholSci. Apr 2016;27(4):530-541.
Moody DLB, Chang YF, Pantesco EJ, et al. Everyday Discrimination Prospectively Predicts Blood Pressure Across 10 Years in Racially/Ethnically Diverse Midlife Women: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation. Ann Behav Med. Sep 21 2018.
In lieu of our October Journal Club, the Center hosted Ask Yo Mama: 12 Moods For Jazz — A night of Jazz with the Ron McCurdy Group. The performance was followed by a panel discussion with Center Director, Dr. Chandra Ford, Dr. Ron McCurdy, Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley and Dr. Eric Avila.
October 11, 2018
June 14, 2018
Topic: Place, Race, & Racial Violence
Gilmore, R. W. (2002). Fatal couplings of power and difference: Notes on racism and geography. The Professional Geographer, 54(1), 15-24.
Dawson, M. C. (2016). Hidden in Plain Sight: A Note on Legitimation Crises and the Racial Order. Critical Historical Studies, 3(1), 143-161.
Topic: Racism, Police violence, and (In)justice
This month, the Center will be collaborating with the Fielding School of Public Health Diversity Committee to host a discussion on racism, violence, and (in)justice based on Ta-Nehisi Coates' book Between the World and Me.
May 10, 2018
Topic: Racism, legal status, and health disparities
Landale, N. S., Oropesa, R. S., & Noah, A. J. (2017). Experiencing discrimination in Los Angeles: Latinos at the intersection of legal status and socioeconomic status. Social science research, 67, 34-48.
Asad, A. L., & Clair, M. (2017). Racialized legal status as a social determinant of health. Social Science & Medicine.
April 12, 2018
March 8, 2018
Topic: Use of conventional statistical methods and big data to do research on racism and health
Chae, D. H., Clouston, S., Martz, C. D., Hatzenbuehler, M. L., Cooper, H. L., Turpin, R., ... & Kramer, M. R. (2017). Area racism and birth outcomes among Blacks in the United States. Social Science & Medicine.
Kaufman, J. S. (2017). Statistics, Adjusted Statistics, and Maladjusted Statistics. American journal of law & medicine, 43(2-3), 193-208.
February 8, 2018
Topic: Measuring racism in neighborhood effects research
Riley, A. R. (2017). Neighborhood disadvantage, residential segregation, and beyond—Lessons for studying structural racism and health. Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities, 1-9.
Slater, T. (2013). Your life chances affect where you live: A critique of the ‘cottage industry’ of neighbourhood effects research. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37(2), 367-387.
January 11, 2018
Topic: Structural competency, racism, and medicine
Metzl, J. M., & Roberts, D. E. (2014). Structural competency meets structural racism: race, politics, and the structure of medical knowledge. Virtual Mentor, 16(9), 674.
Metzl, J. M., & Hansen, H. (2014). Structural competency: Theorizing a new medical engagement with stigma and inequality. Social Science & Medicine, 103, 126-133.
Braun, L. (2017). Theorizing Race and Racism: Preliminary Reflections on the Medical Curriculum. American journal of law & medicine, 43(2-3), 239-256.
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