In keeping with the messages from President Stokes, HSC Core Leadership, the UNM Division for Equity & Inclusion, and the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center wants our community to know that we condemn acts of racism, police brutality, racial terror, and injustice. We know that racism impacts every facet of life and especially that of the health of our communities.
We are horrified by acts of violence against the Black community and the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black, Indigenous and underserved communities that has further shed light on injustices that have been persistent for many of our students, faculty, and staff.
The staff and faculty of the Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center are here to listen and to learn. We are committed every day to end racism and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion and understand that systemic oppression cannot be met with silence.
For those looking for resources to educate themselves and engage in this important conversation we suggest starting with Anti-Racism Resources (compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein, May 2020), Anti-Racism Resources for All Ages (curated by Nicole Cooke, the Augusta Baker Chair in Childhood Literacy at the School of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina), and 10 Books About Race to Read Instead of Asking a Person of Color to Explain Things to You (article in Bustle by Sadie Trombetta).
Links to selected readings at UNM are:
- An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
- Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy
- The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
- Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy E. Roberts
- Gender, Race, Class, and Health: Intersectional Approaches edited by Amy J. Schulz and Leith Mullings
- The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
- How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care by Dayna Bowen Matthew
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
If you would like to suggest further resources for us to highlight and/or review ourselves, please share with us at AskOMT.