1. #BlackInTheIvory on Twitter.
3. Financial Literacy in the Black Community by Rachel Christian
4. Decolonizing Science Reading List by Chandra Prescod-Weinstein.
5. Social Distancing Deals a Triple Blow to People of Color by Tim F. Liao, Dan Steward, and Caitlin Vitosky Clarke, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Selections in bold written by UIUC faculty.
Bailey, Z.D., Krieger, N., Agénor, M., Graves, J., Linos, N. and Bassett, M.T., 2017. Structural racism and health inequities in the USA: evidence and interventions. The Lancet, 389(10077), pp.1453-1463. Full text here.
N. Bates. 2017. Stereotypes of a black male (student-athlete) misunderstood, and it’s all good: The life of Eric Christopher Garrett. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Doctoral Dissertation. Full text here.
T. Brown. 2008. Race, racism, and mental health: Elaboration of critical race theory’s contribution to the sociology of mental health. Contemporary Justice Review. 11(1) pp.53-62. Full text here.
K. Chaplin, J. Montez de Oca. 2019. Avoiding the issue: University students' responses to NFL players' national anthem protests. Sociology of Sport Journal. 36, pp.12-21. Full text here.
S. Harwood, M. Huntt, R. Mendenhall, J. Lewis. 2012. Racial microaggressions in the residence halls: Experiences of students of color at a predominantly white university. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. 5(3) pp.159-173. Full text here.
R. Hogarth. 2017. Medicalizing blackness: Making racial difference in the Atlantic world 1780-1840. The University of North Carolina Press. Book info here.
J. Lewis, R. Mendenhall, A. Ojiemwen, M. Thomas, C. Riopelle, S. Harwood. 2019. Racial microaggressions and sense of belonging at a historically white university. American Behavioral Scientist. Full text here.
R. May. 2000. “The Sid Cartwright incident and more”: An African American male’s interpretive narrative of interracial encounters at the University of Chicago. Studies in Symbolic Interaction. 24, pp.75-100. Full text here.
C. Prescod-Weinstein. 2020. Making black women scientists under white empiricism: The racialization of epistemology in physics. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 45(21) pp.421-447. Full text here.
D. Roberts. 1997. Killing the black body: Race, reproduction, and the meaning of liberty. Pantheon Books. Book info here.
H. Washington. 2006. Medical apartheid: The dark history of medical experimentation on black Americans from colonial times to the present. Harlem Moon. Book info here.
D. Williams, M. Sternthal. 2010. Understanding racial-ethnic disparities in health: Sociological contributions. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 51(S), pp. S15-27. Full text here.
D. Williams, J. Lawrence, and B. Davis. 2017. Racism and Health: Evidence and Needed Research. Annual Review of Public Health. 40 pp 105-125. Full text here.
D. Williams. 2018. Stress and the mental health of populations of color. The Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 59(4) pp.466-485. Full text here.