Black History Month Public Health Reading List

Explore books, articles, and videos recommended by Yale School of Public Health faculty, staff, and students.

• "Black Women and Public Health: Strategies to Name, Locate, and Change Systems of Power" edited by Stephanie Y. Evans, Sarita K. Davis, Leslie R. Hinkson, and Deanna J. Wathington
• "Body and Soul: The Black Panther and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination" by Alondra Nelson
• "Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad" by Matthew F. Delmont
• "Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot" by Mikki Kendall
• "How the Word is Passed" by Clint Smith
• "How to be an Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi
• "Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation" by Samuel K. Roberts
• "Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty" by Dorothy Roberts
• "Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present" by Harriet A. Washington
• "Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality" by Tanya Katerí Hernández
• "The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love" by Sonya Renee Taylor
• "To Make the Wounded Whole: the African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS" by Dan Royles
• "Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want" by Ruha Benjamin

• "Afterlives" by Abdulrazak Gurnah
• "Monday's Not Coming" by Tiffany D. Jackson
• "On Rotation" by Shirlene Obuobi
• "Take My Hand" by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

• Alang, S., McAlpine, D., McCreedy, E., & Hardeman, R. (2017). Police Brutality and Black Health: Setting the Agenda for Public Health Scholars. American journal of public health, 107(5), 662–665.
• Canada, T., & Carter, C. R. (2021, July 8). The NFL’s Racist ‘Race Norming’ Is an Afterlife of Slavery. Scientific American.
• Carter, C.R. (2022), Gaslighting: ALS, anti-Blackness, and medicine. Feminist Anthropology, 3: 235-245.
• Opara, I., Lardier, D. T., Jr, Garcia-Reid, P., & Reid, R. J. (2022). Measuring Intrapersonal Psychological Empowerment and Ethnic Identity: Highlighting Strengths of Urban Black Girls. Youth & society, 54(2), 573–592.
• Opara, I., Lardier, D. T., Jr, Metzger, I., Herrera, A., Franklin, L., Garcia-Reid, P., & Reid, R. J. (2020). "Bullets Have no Names": A Qualitative Exploration of Community Trauma Among Black and Latinx Youth. Journal of child and family studies, 29(8), 2117–2129.
• Oro, P.J.L. (2021). A Love Letter to Indigenous Blackness. NACLA Report on the Americas, 53(3), 248-254.
• Smith, C. A., Williams, E. L., Wadud, I. A., & Pirtle, W. N. L. (2021). Cite Black Women: A Critical Praxis (A Statement). Feminist Anthropology, n/a(n/a).
• Suh S. (2018). Accounting for abortion: Accomplishing transnational reproductive governance through post-abortion care in Senegal. Global public health, 13(6), 662–679.

• 13th (documentary on Netflix)
• "The Body Is Not an Apology" by Sonya Renee Taylor (spoken word poetry available on Youtube)
• The Heart Still Hums (documentary short film available on Youtube)