Race and Health

This section addresses current and historical public health crises within the context of xenophobia, racism, and racial inequity. The authors address the Black Lives Matter movement, Indigenous peoples' experiences of epidemics, and how epidemics have spurred prejudice against marginalized populations.
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The AHA’s Bibliography of Historians’ Responses to COVID-19 Zotero Library allows users to sort and filter entries using more than 145 topics.
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“Bibliography of Historians’ Responses to COVID-19” includes commentary and publications by historians in both scholarly and popular periodical literature; recorded interviews and webcasts; and digitized primary source materials from past epidemics and pandemics. If you have an article, op-ed, interview, etc. that you think should be included in the bibliography please fill out this form to submit a reference.