LibraryGuides: Multicultural Health: Black Health

Population Health Profiles

Population Health Profile: Black/African American Health
From the Office of Minority Health (OMH) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , these profiles provide detailed demographic, language fluency (where relevant), education, economic, insurance coverage and health status information, as well as full census reports.

Black Health & Wellness Books

Black LGBT Health in the United States : the intersection of race, gender, and sexual orientation by Lourdes Dolores Follins (Editor); Jonathan Mathias Lassiter (Editor,) Focuses on the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of health, and considers both risk and resiliency factors for the Black LGBT population. Contributors to this collection intimately understand the associations between health and intersectional anti-Black racism, heterosexism, homonegativity, biphobia, transphobia, and social class. This collection fills a gap in current scholarship by providing information about an array of health issues like cancer, juvenile incarceration, and depression that affect all subpopulations of Black LGBT people, especially Black bisexual-identified women, Black bisexual-identified men, and Black transgender men. This book is recommended for readers interested in psychology, health, gender studies, race studies, social work, and sociology.
ISBN: 9781498535762
Publication Date: 2016-12-13
Caring for equality : a history of African American health and healthcare by David McBride In Caring for Equality David McBride chronicles the struggle by African Americans and their white allies to improve poor black health conditions as well as inadequate medical care-caused by slavery, racism, and discrimination-since the arrival of African slaves in America.
ISBN: 1442260602
Publication Date: 2018
Medical Stigmata: Race, Medicine, and the Pursuit of Theological Liberation by Kirk A Johnson This book observes the idea of race as a false representation for the cause of disease. Race-based medicine, an emerging field in pharmacology, aims to create a specialty market based on racial groups. Within this market, the drug BiDil set a precedent in this area of medicine targeting African Americans as its first racial group. Consequently, selecting African Americans as a "starter group" led to ethical questions regarding the motive behind race- based medicine within the context of the larger treatment of blacks in American medical history. This book therefore links medicine and American eugenics, examines race-based medicine's influence on the perception of the black body, traces the influence of BiDil's approval on the resurgence of race-based medicine, and assesses the black church's response to race-based medicine using black liberation theology as a means to social justice.
ISBN: 9789811329920
Publication Date: 2018

Additional Resources

Black Feminist Perspectives on COVID-19: A Reading List
Black Women Radicals (BWR) is a Black feminist advocacy organization dedicated to uplifting and centering Black women and gender expansive people’s radical political activism.

What are Black women’s perspectives on the pandemic that is COVID-19? Why is it imperative that we center Black women’s thoughts and opinions on and about the coronavirus? What can we learn from these perspectives, thoughts, feelings, and concerns about the pandemic that can help as we navigate through this and after it?