Racism: Science and Tools for the Public Health Professional

Edited by Chandra L. Ford, PhD; Derek M. Griffith, PhD; Marino A. Bruce, PhD; Keon L. Gilbert, DrPH. APHA Press, 2019. ISBN: 978-0-87553-303-2

Awards

• Outstanding Academic Titles 2020: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Posted on March 26, 2021 in Outstanding Academic Titles. Each year Choice publishes its list of Outstanding Academic Titles. This prestigious list reflects the best in scholarly titles, both print and digital, reviewed by Choice during the previous year and brings with it the extraordinary recognition of the academic library community. The list is quite selective, containing approximately ten percent of some 5,000 works reviewed annually in Choice. Choice is a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association
   

Press releases

• APHA, August 19, 2019
   
• UCLA, August 19, 2019

APHA Press website

• Description, pricing (discounted price for APHA members), link to order the printed book
   
• List of chapters and links to purchase electronic copies

Open-access material from the book

• Foreword: An APHA Perspective, by Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, PhD, MPH (open access, including PDF)
   
• Foreword: The Long Trajectory, by William C. Jenkins, PhD, MPH, MS (open access, including PDF)
   
• Preface, by Chandra L. Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS; Derek M. Griffith, PhD; Marino A. Bruce, PhD, MSRC, MDiv; Keon L. Gilbert, DrPH, MPA, MA (open access, including PDF)
   
• Acknowledgements, by Chandra L. Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS; Derek M. Griffith, PhD; Marino A. Bruce, PhD, MSRC, MDiv; Keon L. Gilbert, DrPH, MPA, MA (open access, including PDF)
   
• I. IS RACISM A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE? provides an overview of Part I (open access, including PDF)
   
• A Note from the Battlefield, by Loretta F. Jones, ThD, MA, with Chandra L. Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS(open access, including PDF)
   
• II. HOW DOES RACISM AFFECT HEALTH? provides an overview of Part II (open access, including PDF)
   
• Structural Mechanisms [figure II-1: The Racism Iceberg] (open access, including PDF)
   
• Interpersonal - and Individual-Level Mechanisms [figure II-2: Racism Is Bad for Our Health—Examining Studies of Racism and Health: Where Is the Research?] (open access, including PDF)
   
• Actions and Allegories, by Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, PhD, MPH (open access, including PDF)
   
• III. WHAT DO WE DO? provides an overview of Part III (open access, including PDF)
   
• A Note from the Battlefield, by Loretta F. Jones, ThD, MA, with Chandra L. Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS(open access, including PDF)
   
• Appendix 14A: HEET Evaluation Survey (Accountability for Cancer Care through Undoing Racism and Equity [ACCURE] Healthcare Equity Education and Training [HEET]) (open access, including PDF) - from the Greensboro Health Disparities Collaborative
   
• Appendix 14B: HEET Observation Tool (Accountability for Cancer Care through Undoing Racism and Equity [ACCURE] Healthcare Equity Education and Training [HEET]) (open access, including PDF) - from the Greensboro Health Disparities Collaborative
   
• Appendix 14C: HEET Debriefing Questions for Facilitators and Observers (Accountability for Cancer Care through Undoing Racism and Equity [ACCURE] Healthcare Equity Education and Training [HEET] Evaluation Survey) Facilitators/Observers (open access, including PDF) - from the Greensboro Health Disparities Collaborative
   
• A Note from the Battlefield, by Loretta F. Jones, ThD, MA, with Chandra L. Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS(open access, including PDF)
   
• IV. ARE THERE GROUP-SPECIFIC EXPERIENCES? provides an overview of Part IV (not open access)
   
• A Note from the Battlefield, by Loretta F. Jones, ThD, MA, with Chandra L. Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS(open access, including PDF)
   
• V. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? (no text)
   
• A Note from the Battlefield, by Felicia Jones(open access, including PDF)
   
• Contributors (open access, including PDF)
   
• Index, by (open access, including PDF)

Supplemental materials and links

• References, with live URLs for selected items for chapter 2, "Overcoming the Impact of Racism on the Health of Communities: What We Have Learned and What We Have Not", by Jenkins, Schoenbach, Rowley, and Ford. This chapter includes a narrative of anti-racism activities at the UNC School of Public Health. However, the chapter and appendix are not yet not open access. The appendix (chapter 2A) has images of historical documents and photos.
   
• Presentation by Chandra L. Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS on Addressing racism: do theory & methods matter?. Dean’s Inclusive Excellence Lecture Series at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Nov. 18, 2019
   
• Presentation by Derek M. Griffith, PhD, Structural Racism, 25th National Health Equity Research Webcast, September 13, 2019
   
• APHA resource page on racism (with links to documents, webinars, and more)
   
• More on racism in Vic's "virtual library"