Read-In

SMHS celebrates many thought-provoking events. Here you will find supplemental reading materials to further inform or entertain yourself.

Feb. 7, 2025 readings

During the 2025 African Amercian Read-In, these authors were showcased:

  • James Weldon Johnson- “Lift Every Voice and Sing”
  • Mikki Kendall-“Hood Feminism”
  • Vincent Harding “There is a River”
  • Maya Angelou-“Still I Rise”

African American Health

Black/African American Health in the United States a “pathfinder can be used to support research or instructional activities in classrooms, libraries, health fairs, and community worker programs. Produced by the Office of Minority Health, a department of the US Department of Health and Human Services

Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit, Winters, Mary-Frances, 2020 (ebook)

The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health: Navigate an Unequal System, Learn Tools for Emotional Wellness, and Get the Help You Deserve, Walker, Rheeda ; Akbar, Na'im, 2020 (ebook)

Black Disability Politics, Schalk, Sami, 2022 (ebook, open access)

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, Gay, Roxane, 2017 (ebook, overdrive)

Innocence in America—Reading James Baldwin in 2020, Khorana, Alok A. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, 2021-02, Vol.325 (5), p.418-419 (article, online)

The fire is upon us : James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the debate over race in America, Buccola, Nicholas, author.; Onayemi, Prentice, narrator.; OverDrive, Inc., 2019 (e-audiobook, overdrive)
 

Racial Injustice

Books available at Chester Fritz Library

Take a look at these physical book choices available from Chester Fritz Library (These are print books. Be sure to have your student ID with you in order to check them out.)

Celebrating Black History Month readings

Books on Political Equality

Database searches

Use these search strings to either explore many articles or add specific terms to enhance your own database searches.

PubMed search

("Healthcare Disparities"[Mesh] OR "Health Inequities"[Mesh]) AND ("Black or African American"[Mesh])

 

SocIndex search

DE "AFRICAN Americans" AND DE "HEALTH equity"