This webpage is designed to provide additional support for the participants of Karen Gaffney’s breakout session “Dismantling the Racism Machine:Why White People Must Confront the Resurgence of the “Race is Biological” Myth and Its Perpetuation of White Supremacy.” Note that additional resources are available at the tab for Resources on Race and Racism as well as the additional Resource pages under that tab. Also see Karen’s blog posts on the main page.
Karen’s PowerPoint slides (pdf):
Dismantling the Racism Machine: A Manual and Toolbox by Karen Gaffney – coupon code: SS254 at the Routledge website
“Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Race” (from Race: The Power of an Illusion) (documentary available on library streaming service Kanopy)
“The disturbing reason some African American patients may be undertreated for pain” (article)
Superior: The Return of Race Science (book by Angela Saini)
TED Talk with Dorothy Roberts “The Problem with Race-Based Medicine” (video, 15 minutes)
“What Serena Williams’s scary childbirth story says about medical treatment of black women” (article)
Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society (book by Arline T Geronimus)
Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (book by Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Alan H. Goodman)
RIOS Working Group – Debunking the Myth that Race is Biological (Karen Gaffney and Melanie Lenahan worked with 4 of their students, who created materials to debunk the myth that race is biological, all available to view, download, and share)
“The Origin of Race in the USA,” Danielle Bainbridge (The Origin of Everything series, PBS Digital Studios) (10 minutes)
“American Black women face disproportionately high rates of maternal mortality” (PBS Newshour video and article)
Race: Are We So Different (book and website)
What DNA ancestry tests can — and can’t — tell you (video, 7 minutes)
“Race ≠ DNA: If race is a social construct, what’s up with DNA ancestry testing?” (article by Joseph Graves)
“The Biology of Skin Color,” Nina Jablonski (HHMI Biointeractive) (video, 20 minutes)
Karen Gaffney’s op-ed “Countering the Rise of White Nationalism” recommending that faculty across disciplines address the myth that race is biological in their college courses
divided no longer: calling out white supremacy, understanding it, and dismantling it 