Resource List for Webinar: "Challenging the Superwoman Mentality in the Black Community after Pregnancy Loss"

Resource List for Return To Zero Webinar:
Challenging the Superwoman Mentality in the Black Community after Pregnancy Loss
by Dr. Terri Major-Kincade

  1. Movie Trailer: Toxic: A day in the Life of a Black Woman’s Story

  2. When the Bough Breaks: White and Black Differences in Infant Mortality and Birth Weight Dr. Richard Davis and James Collins Study

  3. Systemic Racism: A Gardener's Tale

  4. Allegories on race and racism | Camara Jones | TEDxEmory

  5. Systemic Racism..Living on the Edge: The Cliff of Good Health

  6. Epigenetic: Changes that happen in the womb:

    a. Origins: How the 9 months before birth shape the rest of our lives

    b. Nurture Shock: New thinking about children

  7. New York Times article emphasizing the Lived Experience of Being Black in America

  8. Finding Joy in Black Motherhood:

    a. The power of black motherhood: Finding joy beyond the numbers on maternal mortality

    b. This isn’t another horror story about black motherhood

  9. How Black Motherhood is Different

  10. Henrietta Lacks and HELA Cells

  11. Weathering and Allostatic Load: Impact of Chronic Stress

    a. “Weathering” and Age Patterns of Allostatic Load Scores

    b. Biological Weathering and Its Deadly Effect on Black Mothers

  12. Discrimination is bad for your health

  13. Race and Medicine in the United States

    a. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Reprint Edition

    b. Race and Medicine in Nineteenth-and Early-Twentieth-Century America Kindle Edition

    c. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology Reprint Edition

  14. Chronic Stress, Black Women and Pregnancy

    a. Chronic stress in pregnant African American women leads to biological changes

    b. How Racism May Cause Black Mothers To Suffer The Death Of Their Infants

  15. Unnatural Causes: PBS Documentary about Inequality and Health

  16. Crisis in the Crib: Office of Minority Health Documentary about Infant Mortality through the eyes of youth who have lost siblings 

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