Intersecting Realities: Health, Race, and the Ongoing Legacies of Slavery and Jim Crow ♥ ✚
Thursday, Oct 15, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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Moderator: Gwendolyn R. Majette (Cleveland-Marshall College of Law)
Speakers:
• Sabrina Strings (Sociology)
• Candice Taylor Lucas (Health Sciences)
• Michele Goodwin (Law)
Discussion Facilitators:
• Sri Basu (English)
• Sherine Handy (Anthropplogy)
This event is 60 minutes. All are welcome to stay for a bonus 30 minute facilitated discussion.
Suggested Podcast/Readings:
• The 1619 Podcast 4: How the Bad Blood Started
• Janeen Interlandi, “Why doesn’t the United States have universal health care? The answer has everything to do with race,” pp. 44-45
• Linda Villarosa, “Myths about physical racial differences were used to justify slavery – and are still believed by doctors today,” pp. 56-57
• Khalil Gibran Muhammad, “The sugar that saturates the American diet has a barbaric gustiest as the ‘white gold’ that fuels slavery,” pp. 70-77
To read the 1619 Project, see: https://pulitzercenter.org/sites/default/files/full_issue_of_the_1619_project.pdf
To access the podcasts, see: https://guides.lib.uci.edu/oceanproject