LibGuides: Whole Person & Leisure Reading Collection in Kirksville: Social Justice

Social Justice

The Political Determinants of Health by Daniel E. Dawes
Call Number: RA395.A3 D39 2020

ISBN: 9781421437897

Publication Date: 2020

Dawes argues how political determinants of health create poor environmental conditions, unsafe neighborhoods, etc., and how we can be equipped to close that gap.
Alternate Genres: Healthcare, Politics
Blacks in Osteopathic Medicine: An Idea Whose Time Has Come by Darnita Anderson Hill DO
Call Number: RZ321 .A53 2017

Publication Date: 2017

Hill shows the true involvement black people had in the medical field, and the contributions they made.
Alternate Genres: History, Medical
Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care by Dayna Bowen Matthew
Call Number: RA563.M56 .M38 2018

ISBN: 9781479851621

Publication Date: 2018

Matthew points out how unconscious racial and ethnic biases prevent people from getting the health care they need, and discusses how to rid of those biases.
Alternate Genres: Essay, Healthcare, Race
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
Call Number: E185.615 .A25 2020 1ST ED.

ISBN: 9781250800466

Publication Date: 2020

Acho guides Americans to what they need to know in order to address systemic racism prevalent in today's society.
Alternate Genre: Politics, Race
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and its Assault on the American Mind by Harriet A. Washington
Call Number: GE230 .W37 2020

ISBN: 9780316509442

Publication Date: 2020

Washington shines light on the consequences of environmental racism and how we can reduce and fix those effects.
Alternate Genres: Politics, Race
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Call Number: E184.A1 K344 2019

ISBN: 9780525509288

Publication Date: 2019

Follow Kendi's explanation of antiracism and how this concept reenergizes the conversation about racism and how it can point us towards new ways of thinking.
Alternate Genres: Politics, Race
Stamped from the Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Call Number: E185.61 .K358 2017

ISBN: 9781568585987

Publication Date: 2017

Racist ideas have a long history that lingers strongly in today's society, and Kendi shares that history through the life stories of five different people.
Alternate Genres: History, Race
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Call Number: E184.A1 O454 2019

ISBN: 9781580058827

Publication Date: 2019

Oluo guides readers of all races through different subjects that may be difficult to navigate in order to better understand how racism is unfortunately in every aspect of American life.
Alternate Genre: Race
Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism by John Hoberman
Call Number: RA563.M56 H63 2012

ISBN: 9780520248908

Publication Date: 2012

Hoberman shines a light on how racial differences can affect how American doctors think and treat their black patients.
Alternate Genre: Essay, Medical, Race
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl
Call Number: RA563.M56 M48 2019

ISBN: 9781541644984

Publication Date: 2019

Metzl explores how White Americans must reject racial hierarchies, that those systems ultimately lead to the nation's demise.
Alternate Genres: History, Politics, Race
The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World by Michael Marmot
Call Number: RA418.5.P6 M385 2015

ISBN: 9781632860781

Publication Date: 2015

President of the World Medical Association, Marmot shares how social injustice is one of the greatest threats to global health.
Alternate Genre: Health
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Call Number: HT1521 .D486 2018

ISBN: 9780807047415

Publication Date: 2018

Robin DiAngelo expands on the necessary topic of how white fragility maintains racial inequality, and what people can do to fix that.
The Healing of America by T. R. Reid
Call Number: RA395.A3 R435 2010

ISBN: 9780143118213

Publication Date: 2010

T.R. Reid provides a tour of successful and affordable healthcare systems from around the world.
Alternate Genre: Healthcare
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks
Call Number: HC79.P6 E89 2019

ISBN: 9781250215789

Publication Date: 2018

This book investigates data-based discrimination and how technology prevents people the resources they need to survive.
Alternate Genre: Politics