NPhA has created a list of resources to assist pharmacists and other healthcare professionals to learn, develop and grow in the area of racism. These anti-racism resources are designed to address and help to reduce the effects of systemic racism in our country through our personal and professional development. This document provides resources such as books, movies/documentaries, published articles and websites.

Racism in Healthcare

Books

• Black Man in a White Coat by Damon Tweedy, MD
• Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
• Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality by Dayna Bowen Matthew
• Unmasking Racism in Healthcare: Alive and Well by Marie Edwige Seneque, PhD, RN
• The Healthgap: The Challenge of an Unequal World by Michael Marmot
• Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism by John Hoberman
• Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts

Published Articles

• Unequal Treatment: Institute of Medicine Report 
• Structural Racism and Health Inequities in the US 
• Racial Residential Segregation: A Fundamental Cause of Racial Disparities in Health 
• Perspective: Stolen Breaths 
• Racial Disparities and COVID-19 Associated Death by Clinical Care Options 
• Racial Terms and Definitions 

Videos/Documentaries/Movies

• Social Determinants of Health by Dr. Camara Jones

General Anti-racism Resources

Activities

• Harro's Cycle of Socialization

• How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together In the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Teacher Got Wrong by James Loewen
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland by Jonathan Metzel

Published Articles

• Harvard Implicit Bias Test
• Cycle of Socialization
• America’s Enduring Caste System (New York Times July 2020 article)
• An Open Letter to My Non-Black Friends: My Life Matters More Than Your Comfort
• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
• Anti-Racism Project
• Rachel Ricketts’ anti-racism resources
• Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism
• Save the Tears: White Woman’s Guide by Tatiana Mac
• Showing Up For Racial Justice’s educational toolkits
• "How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
• “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
• “Why is this happening?” — an introduction to police brutality from 100 Year Hoodie
• Zinn Education Project’s teaching materials
• Anti-Racist Checklist for Whites by John Raible
• 1619 Project by NY Times

Videos/Documentaries/Movies

• How To Deconstruct Racism, One Headline At A Time by Baratunde Thurston
• The Power of Privilege by Tiffany Jana
• How Structural Racism Works by Dr. Tricia Rose, Brown University
• How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion by Peggy McIntosh
• The 13th (Documentary)
• American Son (Movie)
• Just Mercy (Movie)
• Dear White People (TV Show & Movie)
• The Hate U Give (Movie)
• I am Not Your Negro (Documentary)
• Malcolm X (Movie)
• Selma (Movie)
• When They See Us (Television Series)