Reviews
As part of our effort to empower individuals, Uzima presents a collection of reviews of books written by and about Black communities. These books address inequity in healthcare as well as the history and legacy of systemic racism in the U.S. Change starts with knowledge and grows with advocacy. Dip into this curated collection of interviews with brilliant authors and thinkers, and reviews of transformative books.
The book is a well-written, carefully-researched, complex saga of medical research, bioethics, and race in America.
As a child, Ta-Nehisi Coates was seen by his father, Paul, as too sensitive and lacking focus.
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.
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.
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.
The deprivations and cruelty of slavery have overshadowed our understanding of the institution's most human dimension: birth.
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
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.
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.
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