BLKHLTH Reading List

• Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America by Anthony Ryan Hatch

• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

• Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism by John Hoberman

• Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care by Dayna Matthew

• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy DeGruy

• Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States by Carl A. Zimring

• Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting by Terrie M. Williams

• Black Rage: Two Black Psychiatrists Reveal the Full Dimensions of the Inner -Conflicts and the Desperation of Black Life in the United States by William H. Grier

• Lay My Burden Down: Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis in African-Americans by Alvin Francis Poussaint

• Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength by Chanequa Walker-Barnes

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