Anti-Racism Resources
In our commitment to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion at the Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine, we have created a repository of anti-racism resources to compliment current offerings. New online modules along with trainings, workshops, and professional development are being launched to support this effort.
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Texas Diversity Council “Juneteenth: A Conversation with Dr. George Wright“
A Message from the President’s Office
Dear Faculty, Staff, Students and Residents:
At UT Health San Antonio, we pride ourselves in the rich diversity present on our campus. We respect the many cultural backgrounds represented here and consider it an institutional strength.
Fostering inclusion and diversity is foundational to our university mission because it demonstrates a sense of belonging and it ensures everyone is treated with respect, and have agency and voice, no matter one’s race, gender, age, ethnicity, cultural heritage, nationality, religious or political beliefs, sexual orientation, gender identity or socioeconomic, veteran or ability status.
It is in the context of our university’s respect for all people that we view the recent attacks on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in our country so jarring. These are not isolated events; close to 4,000 of these incidents targeting Asian Americans and Pacific Islander persons have been reported since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and these attacks have increased over the past year.
The occurrence of violence and the frequency of anti-Asian hate speech at a time when we need maximum unity and commitment to the public good and health is troubling and stressful. It is at a moment like this that we should reaffirm our commitment to a safe and supportive work and learning environment for everyone at our campus. Extending empathy, increasing educational awareness and becoming active allies through bystander intervention are some of the many ways we can take genuine, proactive action to help each other and our greater community.
Listed below are several supportive resources available to our campus community should individual assistance be needed. As we navigate these times, we hope our campus community finds inspiriting our university’s unwavering fidelity to inclusion and respect as we reject divisiveness, rancor and violence.
Chiquita A. Collins, Ph.D., M.A.
Associate Vice President of Inclusive Excellence and Health Equity
William L. Henrich, M.D., MACP
President and Professor of Medicine
President Henrich
Vice Dean Collins
Office for Inclusion & Diversity
Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine
Dean HromasNational/Regional Organizations’ Statements
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| ACGME | APHA |
| ADEA | APhA |
| AMA | NASW |
| ANA | NDA |
| AOTA | TXMSC |
Organizations/Institutions
Helpful Resources on Anti-Racism
Anti-Racism Resources
- 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
- Anti-Racism Project
- If You See Something, Do Something Instead of Calling the Cops
- Jenna Arnold’s resources (books and people to follow)
- Key Public Health Resources in Anti Racism Action
- National Museum of African American History and Culture, Talking about Race
- Rachel Ricketts’ anti-racism resources
- Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism
- Showing Up For Racial Justice’s educational toolkits
- We are Living in a Racist Pandemic
- “Why is this happening?” — an introduction to police brutality from 100 Year Hoodie
- Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay – Chances are They’re Not
- Zinn Education Project’s teaching materials
Resources on Anti-Asian Sentiment
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- Participate in the #WashTheHate
- On Anti-Asian Hate Crimes: Who Is Our Real Enemy?
- Hate Incidents Against Asians Are Happening in San Antonio, but Victims Are Not Reporting Them, Expert Says (March 11, 2021)
- What You Can Do About Anti-Asian Violence
- Bystander Intervention to Stop Anti-Asian/American Harassment and Xenophobia Workshop
- The one-hour, interactive training will teach you Hollaback!’s 5D’s of bystander intervention methodology.
- March 29, at 2 p.m. CT Register Here
- April 20, at 1 p.m. CT Register Here
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Article/News
- ER doctors: We’re no strangers to violence but we try to de-escalate without anyone dyingUSA Today | June 12, 2020
- Stolen BreathsNew England Journal of Medicine | June 11, 2020
- White Americans Say They Are Waking Up to Racism. What Will It Add Up To?The New York Times | June 22, 2020
- Envisioning Higher Education as AntiracistInside Higher Ed | July 2,2020
- Invited Commentary: Breaking the Silence: Time to Talk About Race and RacismAcademic Medicine| July 2, 2020
- Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?The Atlantic| May 12, 2020
Books
- A Kid’s Book about RacismJelani Memory
- Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Black Man in a White CoatDamon Tweedy, MD
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her SuperpowerBrittney Cooper, PhD
- Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create RaceDorothy Roberts, PhD
- Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of ColorAndrea J. Ritchie
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and RedemptionBryan Stevenson, JD
- How to Be Anti-RacistIbram X. Kendi, PhD
- Me and White SupremacyLayla F. Saad
- Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the PresentHarriet Washington
- Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature BirthDána-Ain Davis, PhD
- Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health CareAugustus White III, MD
- So You Want to Talk About RaceIjeoma Oluo
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated AmericaRichard Rothstein
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of ColorblindnessMichelle Alexander
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About RacismRobin DiAngelo, PhD
Films
- Fruitvale Station
- I Am Not Your Negro
- 13th (Ava DuVernay)
Netflix - American Son (Kenny Leon)
Netflix - Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada)
Hulu with Cinemax or available to rent - Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu)
Available to rent - Dear White People (Justin Simien)
Netflix - Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler)
Available to rent - I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc)
Available to rent - If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
Hulu - Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton)
Available to rent - King in the Wilderness
HBO - See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol)
Netflix - Selma (Ava DuVernay)
Available to rent - The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.)
Available to rent - When They See Us (Ava DuVernay)
Netflix
Featured Videos
“Why does the killing of unarmed blacks continue to happen?” asks political scientist Megan Ming Francis, M.A., PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Washington. She makes an urgent case for a new approach to these tragic deaths, explaining that we need to look at the deeper causes of systemic racism rather than settle for easy fixes.| WATCH VIDEO
What is a healthy racial identity for a White person, and how do we help our White children develop one? Dr. Jennifer Harvey, Professor of Religion at Drake University discusses her book, Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America, as well her personal journey towards anti-racist organizing, educating, and child rearing. | LISTEN
Social justice advocate and law scholar Dorothy Roberts, JD has a precise and powerful message: Race-based medicine is bad medicine. Even today, many doctors still use race as a medical shortcut; they make important decisions about things like pain tolerance based on a patient’s skin color instead of medical observation and measurement. In this searing talk, Roberts lays out the lingering traces of race-based medicine — and invites us to be a part of ending it. “It is more urgent than ever to finally abandon this backward legacy,” she says, “and to affirm our common humanity by ending the social inequalities that truly divide us.” | WATCH VIDEO
Why does race matter so profoundly for health? David R. Williams, PhD, MPH, Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health and Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral University, developed a scale to measure the impact of discrimination on well-being, going beyond traditional measures like income and education to reveal how factors like implicit bias, residential segregation and negative stereotypes create and sustain inequality. In this eye-opening talk, Williams presents evidence for how racism is producing a rigged system — and offers hopeful examples of programs across the US that are working to dismantle discrimination. | WATCH VIDEO