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Selected Structural and Cultural Competency Resources

The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White by Frank H. Wu
Acres of Skin by Allen Hornblum
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism by John Hoberman
Black Man in a White Coat by Damon Tweedy
Citizen by Claudia Rankine
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts
Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health by Howard Waitzkin (Editor)
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth by Dána-Ain Davis
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Sloot
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Why Are All the Black Kids Siitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Women, Race, & Class by Angela Davis

We Are Not a Stereotype: Breaking Down Asian Pacific American Bias (Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center)
13th by Ava DuVernay
COVID-19 Webinar Series by Harvard Medical School Global Health and Social Medicine, Blavatnik Institute
TED Talk: The Problem with Race-Based Medicine by Dorothy Roberts