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Alternative and Community Health
Health and Social Sciences Research
- Toluwani E. Adekunle, “Reproductive coercion,
medical mistrust, and Black women's health from the antebellum period to the 21st century”
- Molly R. Altman et al. “Information and
power: Women of Color's Experiences Interacting with Health Care Providers in Pregnancy and Birth.”
Social Science & Medicine.
- Lisa M. Bodnar and Hyagriv N Simhan. “Vitamin
D may be a link to black-white disparities in adverse birth outcomes.” Obstetrical &
Gynecological Survey
- Khiara Bridges, Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a
Site of Racialization&
- James W. Collins Jr, Richard J. David, Arden Handler, Stephen Wall, and Steven Andes. "Very low birthweight in African American
infants: the role of maternal exposure to interpersonal racial discrimination." American Journal
of Public Health
- Deirdre Cooper Owens and Sharla M. Fett, “Black Maternal and Infant Health:
Historical Legacies of Slavery.” American Journal of Public Health.
- Dána-Ain Davis, Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and
Premature Birth
- Brittany N. Edwards, Monica R. McLemore, et al. “What about the men? Perinatal experiences of men of
color whose partners were at risk for preterm birth, a qualitative study.” BMC Pregnancy
Childbirth
- Kelly Jo Fulkerson-Dikuua, [Un]informed
Consent: Eugenics, Forced Sterilization and Medical Violence in the Jim Crow United States and Apartheid
Southern Africa
- Cheryl L. Giscombé and Marci Lobel. “Explaining Disproportionately High Rates of
Adverse Birth Outcomes Among African Americans: The Impact of Stress, Racism, and Related Factors in
Pregnancy.” Psychological Bulletin
- Monica R. McLemore et al. “Health Care
Experiences of Pregnant, Birthing and Postnatal Women of Color at Risk for Preterm Birth.”
Social Science & Medicine
- Julia Oparah et al., Battling Over Birth: Black Women and
the Maternal Healthcare Crisis
- Julia Chinyere Oparah and Alicia D. Bonaparte, Birthing Justice:
Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth
- Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and
the Meaning of Liberty
Humanities Research
Federal Reports
Local and State Reports
Media
- Simone Drake, “Birthing
Black Lives Matter: A Meditation on Staying Woke”
- NBC News, “How
Training Doctors in Implicit Bias Could Save the Lives of Black Mothers”
- New York Times, “Why
America's Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis?
- NPR, Cedar-Sinai
Medical Center Maternal Death Lawsuit
- NPR, Black
Mothers Keep Dying After Giving Birth: Shalon Irving's Story Explains Why
- NPR, How
Racism May Cause Black Mothers to Suffer the Death of Their Infants
- PBS, Unnatural Causes: When the
Bough Breaks
- Amy Roeder, America Is
Failing Its Black Mothers
- Self Magazine, Series on
Black Maternal Mortality
- Serena Williams, CNN Opinion, “Serena
Williams: What My Life-Threatening Experience Taught Me About Giving Birth
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