Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Diversity & Inclusion

Anti-Racism Toolkit

Read our Leadership Statement

Feinberg asserts that racism is a public health crisis.

We declare that racism will not be tolerated at Feinberg. We will be especially diligent in addressing anti-Black racism on this campus. Following are resources, statements and other tools for our medical school community members.

Northwestern Resources

Units, initiatives and programs across the University system are dedicated to supporting faculty, staff and students with resources and learning opportunities.
Center for Health Equity Transformation Northwestern Social Justice Education Northwestern Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) Northwestern Office of Equity Northwestern Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Leading Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice in Organizations Certificate Program ARCC’s Racial Equity in Research Engagement Resource Catalog Feinberg Task Force on Inclusion and Bias

Curated Resources

Following is a list of resources compiled by the Office of Diversity & Inclusion. We encourage community members to use these resources to better understand the issues we face.

  • How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
  • Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
  • White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
  • Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century by Dorothy Roberts
  • White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise
  • Dear White America: letter to a New Minority by Tim Wise
  • So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
  • I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
  • The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee
  • An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
  • Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
  • Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A Blackmon
  • The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
  • When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America by Paula J Giddings
  • They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
  • From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
  • One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson
  • Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R Banaji
  • Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler
  • Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
  • Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad
  • Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
  • Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
  • Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Thank, and Do by Jennifer L Eberhardt

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Mental Health and Well-Being Resources

12 Black Mental-Health and Wellness Resources to Follow on Instagram Family­-Care, Community-­Care and Self­-Care Tool Kit: Healing in the Face of Cultural Trauma Northwestern Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) - Coping with Recent Events Northwestern Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

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