racism in neuroscience 2023 reading list

We are rapidly nearing the end of winter quarter 2023, some days I can even feel spring in the air! Our Racism in Neuroscience class has been a sustaining source of nourishment for me this quarter. I’m grateful to the the all the students in this class; I have learned so much from them all.

Here is the list of materials we have been reading and interacting with:

Historical roots to modern practices:

• Article: Boria Sax, What is a “Jewish Dog”? Konrad Lorenz and the Cult of Wildness
• Article: Sade Abiodun, “Seeing Color”
• Article: Kathryn Harden, What do we do with the science of terrible men?
• Article: Erika Janik, The shape of your head and the shape of your heart
• Article: Jordan Starck et al., How university diversity rationales inform student preferences and outcomes
• In person seminar: Jordan Starck, Jan 11, 2023, 3:30pm

The making/unmaking of the violent brain:

• Book: Oliver Rollins, Conviction
• In person seminar: Oliver Rollins, March 07, 2023, in class

Medical Racism

• Online seminar: Dorothy Roberts, The Problem with Race-Based Medicine
• Article: Kelly Hoffmann et al., Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites
• Article: Sally Seraphin, Strange fruit and the furtive killing of blacks

Tools + Technologies of Racism

• Article: Megan Garcia, Racist in the Machine
• Online seminar: Ruha Benjamin, The New Jim Code
• Article: Abeba Birhane + Olivia Guest, Towards decolonising computational sciences
• Online seminar: Sara Ahmed,Complaint, Diversity, and Other Hostile Environments
• Article: Melissa Dancy + Apriel Hodari, How well-intentioned white male physicists maintain ignorance of inequity and justify inaction.

Looking Locally

• Article: NPR Staff, Founding the University of Washington, one student at a time
• Article: Lee and Ahtone, Land grab universities
  • Website: Land grab universities
• Website: Seeds of BAMM
  • Article: Ash Shah, Several UW School of Medicine professors accused of anti-Black behavior
• Article: Krystal H. Parrish, et al., Dismantling White Supremacy Culture (Canvas)

Futures: what is possible?

• Book: la paperson, A Third University is Possible
• Essay: Audre Lorde, The transformation of silence into language and action

Recommended materials (not required for class in winter 2023):

• Book: Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology
• Book: Isabelle Stengers, Another Science is Possible: A Manifesto for Slow Science
• Book: Dorothy Roberts, Fatal Invention
• Book: Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression
• Book: Max Liboiron, Pollution is Colonialism
• Book: Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
• Book chapter: The black man and psychopathology
• Book chapter: Towards the sociogenic principle