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“Analyze a Video.” National Archives, Washington, D.C. A graphic organizer for film and video. While it says motion picture, it has enough options that it works for all kinds of video--more than others.
Avila, Yuriria, et al. “The Racial Gap in U.S. Vaccinations Is Shrinking, but Work Remains.” New York Times, 14 May 2021, www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/14/us/vaccine-race-gap.html?searchResultPosition=5. Accessed 21 July 2021. This editorial looks at promise and solutions as vaccination numbers improve.
Boyd, Rhea. “Black People Need Better Vaccine Access, Not Better Vaccine Attitudes.” New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021, www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/opinion/us-covid-black-people.html?searchResultPosition=5. Accessed 21 July 2021. This editorial looks at the reasons for the lower rates of vaccination in African Americans.
Emanuel, Ezekiel J, and Risa Lavizzo-Mourey. “5 Ways the Health-Care System Can Stop
Amplifying Racism.” The Atlantic, 24 Sept. 2020, www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/how-health-care-can-stop-amplifying-racism/616454/. Accessed 13 June 2021. Source for Covid-19 demographics on race.
Gray, Fred D. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: the Real Story and Beyond. NewSouth Books, 2013. Gray represented the survivors and families of survivors in the class action lawsuit and beyond. The book includes a few first-hand accounts and President Clinton's apology.
Greely, Henry T, and Mildred K Cho. “The Henrietta Lacks Legacy Grows.” EMBO Reports, vol. 14, no. 10, 2013, pp. 849–849., doi:10.1038/embor.2013.148.
Hooks, Bell. Writing beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice. Routledge, 2013. I used Chapter 7, "Tragic Biography: Resurrecting Henrietta Lacks" for the author's race-critical perspective of Skloot's writing.
Lantos, John D. “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Henrietta Lacks.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, vol. 59, no. 2, 2016, pp. 228–233., doi:10.1353/pbm.2017.0007. Not a poem, but modeled after Wallace Stevens's 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, point out the multiple perspectives of the Lacks story.
Marquardt, Tom. “Tragic Chapter of Crownsville State Hospital's History.” Capitol Gazette, 5 June 2013, www.capitalgazette.com/cg-tragic-chapter-of-crownsville-state-hospitals-legacy-20140730-story.html. Accessed 19 July 2021. Horrific account of life at Crownsville.
Curtis, Adam, director. Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh. BBC Two, 1997, www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgMUlVl-poE&t=2483s. Accessed 13 July 2021. Curtis's video is a lesson in video content, style, and editing, in addition to being an interesting insight into the scientific side of HeLa cells and their history. It's quirky, has good sources and interviews with original participants in the HeLa story.
“New Course Tells Untold Stories of Black Health Leaders.” Search the Website, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, 3 Feb. 2021, www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/new-course-tells-untold-stories-black-health-leaders. University work being done to draw attention to those contributing to African-American health issues present and past.
“Racism and Health.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 8 July 2021, www.cdc.gov/healthequity/racism-disparities/index.html. The Center for Disease Control's statement on racism as a determinant of health and its affects on individuals and our country.
Skloot, Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Broadway Books , 2010. The journalistic account of the history of the HeLa cells from Henrietta Lacks, Black women who received no compensation or acknowledgement for the use of her cells, that, used without her permission have contributed to immeasurable medial progress, including Covid-19 vaccines.
Washington, Harriet A. Medical Apartheid. Anchor Books, 2006. Comprehensive history of medical racism on Black Americans from colonial period to the present.
Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Thorndike Pr, 2021. Wilkerson's groundbreaking book breaks down the social structures of our country as they are driven by race. We look at chapter 24, which is about physiological health disparities.
Wolinetz, Carrie D., and Francis S. Collins. “Recognition of Research Participants’ Need for Autonomy.” Jama, vol. 324, no. 11, 11 Aug. 2020, pp. 1027–1028., doi:10.1001/jama.2020.15936.
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