🧵 Here’s a sampling of books on or including info on Race Science/Race medicine/Scientific racism. Feel free to add to the list. Save, share, tag folks. Also, let me know if you’ve read any of them & your take-aways.
How have they shaped/influenced your work?
List ⬇️. #AIMART
✅Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions by @gravesjl55 & Alan Goodman
✅Superior: THE RETURN OF RACE SCIENCE by Angela Saini
✅Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century by @DorothyERoberts
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✅Breathing Race into the Machine
The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics by @LundyBraun
✅Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by @DorothyERoberts
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✅ Medical Apartheid:The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by @haw95
✅The Invention of the White Race, Vol 1 & 2:Racial Oppression & Social Control + The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America by Theodore W.Allen
✅The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea by Robert Wald Sussman
✅Race, Racism, and Science: Social Impact and Interaction by John P. Jackson
✅ Black and Blue:The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism by John Hoberman
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✅Death Gap - How Inequality Kills by David A. Ansell
✅In the Wake: On Blackness & Being, by Christina Sharpe
✅The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by @nhannahjones
✅Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 by Rana A. Hogarth
✅Troublesome science: The misuse of genetics & genomics in understanding race by Rob DeSalle
✅ Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture by Sheldon Krimsky
✅ Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America edited by Laurie B. Green, Joun McKiernan-Gonzalez, Martin Summers
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Good morntint🌞
I am still surprised at how many super highly educated people with authority & power 2 whom I have to explicitly state these words:
“Human Race Is A Sociopolitical Construct #HRIASC invented by white supremacism for the purpose of economic power hoarding.” #AIMART
Again, I wouldn’t be a millennial professor if I didn’t make an @instagram reel/TikTok about it 😁😆😊
We stay reminding MDs, PhDs, RNs, PharmDs, DPTs, SLPs, ABCDs, XYZs, 5-Os, & C3POs that
Race is NOT biological &
Racism is the vector of health disparities. @EndRC2022#AIMART
Biological race is a racist lie created 2 justify American chattel slavery, settler & non-settler colonialism, & imperialism. That lie was created to encode the belief in the biological inferiority of Black bodies into America’s cultural, economic, legal, & political core.#AIMART
There’s a tweet making its rounds that’s truly annoying as it illustrates the stubborn inability/refusal of nice liberal white folks” to be critically self aware, particularly of their own white body privilege & positionality.
See screenshot.
(Choosing not to RT)
So, a 🧵
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👉🏿There’s no such thing as being “apolitical”. Politics is life. Everything about our lives & living is informed by politics & we inform the dynamics of said politics by our participation or lack thereof.
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The notion that one is “apolitical” is intentionally ignorant, arrogantly, & usually a cop-out from being held accountable for one’s decisions or lack thereof. It is often the position of a person who holds privilege or body advantage in an unjust & unequal society or …
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CONTRIBUTING FACTORS
that increase the risk of MMH among Black women:
👉🏿Structural racism & intersectional systemic violence/oppression, including misogynoir
👉🏿Unemployment
👉🏿Exposure to violence
👉🏿Gaps in medical insurance
👉🏿Adverse Childhood Experiences
& more 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿
On this upcoming International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery & Transatlantic SlaveTrade 3/25 & International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 3/21, I'm remembering how Black people were cared for by Veterinarians along with white folks' animals. 1/
I’m remembering how we weren’t seen by human physicians unless our case was complex or “interesting” and were serving the role of “teaching material” for the education of white physicians or “research materials” for experimentation and research to improve white health.
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I’m remembering how not much has changed today as practices such as “race correction” continue to uphold the current system of medical apartheid that undervalues Black bodies, minds, and souls in the Canadian and US health/healthcare/pubic health system.
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Morntint☀️
Now that you washed the crust from yo’ eyes & done your morntint meditation - can’t wait to see you 1pmET this aftrnoon on @TwitterSpaces
for the crisis management that is #AIMART becos
📣Global AntiBlackness is a Global Health Crisis!
🌍Africa*Asia*MidEast
Good morntint to everyone except people who reflexively hit the “people shld be hired/admitted/recognized on the basis of their qualifications rgrdlss of skin color/gender” button when a Black (woman) is considered for a position, but not when it’s the usual mediocre white men.
These folks are your run-of-the-mill “color blind” intentionally ignorant folks who refuse to understand that we don’t function in a vacuum & the ubiquitous presence & impact of white supremacy informing their expectation of qualifications for marginalized identities while…
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…assuming inherent qualification for white mediocrity. I’m talking blatant mediocrity. We are surrounded by it and suffer the consequences of poor leadership & performance in our places of work, education, service, etc.