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Books discussing healthcare inequities, education and activism

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The book is a well-written, carefully-researched, complex saga of medical research, bioethics, and race in America.

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As a child, Ta-Nehisi Coates was seen by his father, Paul, as too sensitive and lacking focus.

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Kathryn Strother Ratcliff puts into practice the "upstream" imagery from public health discourse, which locates the causes (and solutions) of health problems within the social environment.

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In the course of the 20th century, cancer went from being perceived as a white woman's nemesis to a "democratic disease" to a fearsome threat in communities of color.

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The book is the moving and powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.

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The deprivations and cruelty of slavery have overshadowed our understanding of the institution's most human dimension: birth.

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Dr. Alvin Poussaint and journalist Amy Alexander offer a groundbreaking look at 'posttraumatic slavery syndrome,' the unique physical and emotional perils for Black people that are the legacy of slavery and persistent racism.

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In this history of American political culture, Keith Wailoo examines how pain has defined the line between liberals and conservatives from just after World War II to the present.

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Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death.