Anti-Racism Resources | Wellness | SIU

1. Read: Racism and Health by the American Public Health Association
   1. https://www.apha.org/topics-and-issues/health-equity/racism-and-health
2. Read: About Social Determinants of Health by the World Health
   1. Organizationhttps://www.who.int/social_determinants/sdh_definition/en/
3. Read (10 min): Black Lives Matter: A Commentary on Racism and Public Health by Garcia and Sharif Am J Public Health 2015 Vol 105, No. 8 
   1. https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.2015.302706
4. Read (3 min): Institutional Racism in Health Care, a statement by the American Academy of Family Physicians 
   1. https://www.aafp.org/about/policies/all/institutional-racism.html
5. Read: Syllabus: A History of Anti-Black Racism in Medicine; Black Perspectives Blog from the African American Intellectual History Society
   1. https://www.aaihs.org/syllabus-a-history-of-anti-black-racism-in-medicine/
6. Watch (15 min): TEDx: The Problem With Race-Based Medicine by Dorothy Roberts
   1. https://youtu.be/KxLMjn4WPBY
7. Read (15 min): “’A Terrible Price’: The Deadly Racial Disparities of COVID-19 in America” by the New York Times
   1. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/magazine/racial-disparities-covid-19.html

“Racism may be intentional or unintentional. It operates at various levels in society. Racism is a driving force of the social determinants of health (like housing, education, and employment) and is a barrier to health equity.”

Read:Racism and Health by the American Public Health Association

Resources:

1. Watch (5 min) Advice for White People From Anti-Racism Trainer NowThis News
   1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdlbalvmhEU
   2. “The principal thing we are asking you to do is show up for yourself and your humanity…examine the ways you interact in the world and how those ways impact the Black communities around you.”
      
2. Read (5 min): Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
   1. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-30/dont-understand-the-protests-what-youre-seeing-is-people-pushed-to-the-edge
      
3. Read (8 min): Who get to be afraid in America? by Ibram X. Kendi
   1. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/ahmaud-arbery/611539/
      
4. Watch (1 hr) Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity a talk by anti-racist writer and educator Tim Wise
   1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmTHY_QnEdk
5. Watch (5 min): Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. How is it Different From PTSD? Dr. Joy DeGruy
   1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rorgjdvphek
6. Read (24 min) Equality Includes You- 103 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice- by Corinne Shutack
   1. https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/what-white-people-can-do-for-racial-justice-f2d18b0e0234
7. Meditate (daily app) Liberate Meditation-The Daily Meditation App For Us, By Us- “A safe space for the Black community to develop a daily meditation habit”
   1. https://liberatemeditation.com/
      

“One of the ways you begin to address that multigenerational trauma is to work with the people directly impacted… I think the first order of business is to have a conversation and the other is to educate the larger society. You have to stop the assault. So this is not purely a clinical thing, this requires social justice and change. That’s where part of the healing is, not in a clinical setting or a pill. It’s in fairness, justice, safety, and equity. We have to work with some of those clinical things, with panic and anxiety, and we also have to deal with the fact that you have a system that is set up to oppress you.” “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. How is it Different From PTSD?”

by Dr. Joy DeGruy

Resources:

1. Watch (4 min): Don’t be a Bystander: 6 Tips for Responding to Racist Attacks by the Barnard Center for Research on Women
   1. https://youtu.be/krgcbiRu0ys
2. Watch (20 min): Let’s Get to the Root of Racial Injustice by Megan Ming Francis 
   1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aCn72iXO9s
3. Listen (20 min): Talking Race with Young Children; podcast by NPR 
   1. https://www.npr.org/2019/04/24/716700866/talking-race-with-young-children
      
4. Read (Book): So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo 
   1. Contact Morris Library and/or the Carbondale Public Library to ask about options for access.
      
5. Read (Book): White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
   1. Contact Morris Library and/or the Carbondale Public Library to ask about options for access.

“…in order to combat continuing racial injustices today, we must expand our vision and our responsibility to what civil rights actually means. We must include the battle against racist violence in our understanding of civil rights. Instead of education, what if we placed freedom from racist violence at the crux of what it means to be free and equal in the United States?”“Let’s Get to the Root of Racial Injustice”

by Megan Ming Francis

Resources:

1. Listen (Six 30-minute episodes): 1619 Podcast by the New York Times
   1. The 1619 Podcast by the New York Times
      
2. Read/Watch: Racial Equity and Anti-Black Racism; from the University of California San Francisco Multicultural Resource Center
   1. https://mrc.ucsf.edu/racial-equity-anti-black-racism
3. Watch (48 min) Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.
   1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOWDtDUKz-U
      
      

“Anti-Blackness [is] a two-part formation that both strips Blackness of value (dehumanizes), and systematically marginalizes Black people. This form of anti-Blackness is overt racism. Society also associates politically incorrect comments with the overt nature of anti-Black racism. Beneath this anti-Black racism is the covert structural and systemic racism which predetermines the socioeconomic status of Blacks in this country and is held in place by anti-Black policies, institutions, and ideologies.”

“Racial Equity and Anti-Black Racism” from the University of California San Francisco Multicultural Resource Center

Resources:

1. Watch (4 min): Tools for How to be an Anti-Racist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
   1. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=594792391148636
2. Watch (60min): Wesley and Ibram X Kendi discuss, “Stamped from the Beginning”
   1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIXj-c6Dbps&feature=youtu.beShort on time? Start watching at the 15-minute mark.
      
3. Read (10 min): What It Means to Be Anti-Racist, Vox. By Anna North
   1. https://www.vox.com/2020/6/3/21278245/antiracist-racism-race-books-resources-antiracism

“Anti-racism is understanding how years of federal, state, and local policies have placed communities of color in the crises they face today, and calling those policies out for what they are: racist. It also requires an understanding of one’s own position in a racist society, many say, an acknowledgment that you can’t simply opt-out of living in white supremacy by saying you’re “not a racist” — you have to actively fight against it.”

“What It Means to Be Anti-Racist” by Anna North

1. Read (10 min): Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
   1. https://psychology.umbc.edu/files/2016/10/White-Privilege_McIntosh-1989.pdf
2. Watch and Work (1hr + work per week) Racial Equity & Liberation Virtual Learning Series a 6-week education series on racial equity and liberation from Move to End Violence.
   1. https://movetoendviolence.org/resources/liberaracial-equity-and-liberation-virtual-learning-community-resource-home-page/
3. Watch (1 hr) How Structural Racism Works by Dr. Tricia Rose, Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America.
   1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC3TWx9IOUE

1. Student Ombudsmen:
   1. https://salukicares.siu.edu/helpful-resources/student-ombudsman.php
2. Office of Equity and Compliance
   1. https://equity.siu.edu/
3. Department of Public Safety
   1. https://dps.siu.edu/

Resources:

1. Student Multicultural Resource Center
   1. https://smrc.siu.edu/
2. Department of Africana Studies
   1. https://cola.siu.edu/africanastudies/
3. Morris Library
   1. https://lib.siu.edu/
      
4. Black Affairs Council
   1. https://bac.rso.siu.edu/
      
5. Success in Engineering through Excellence and Diversity (SEED)
   1. https://cola.siu.edu/africanastudies/
6. Office of Equity and Compliance
   1. https://equity.siu.edu/
7. Wellness and Health Promotion Services
   1. https://wellness.siu.edu/

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