The Black Power Podcast: Recent Episodes
The Black Power Podcast
The Black Power Podcast is a podcast that explores black history in North America. This episode is titled: Impacts of Race, Class, and Geographical Location on Health Care Services and Politics within Black Communities. It's about 20 minutes and provides a brief overview of systemic racism and it's effects on quality and access to healthcare in the United States. Thanks for listening!
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Music: Acid Jazz by Kevin MacLeod
Sources: Bailey, Zinzi D. et al. “Structural Racism and Health Inequalities in the USA: Evidence and Interventions.” Lancet 389, no. 3 (2017): 1453-1463.
Blum, James and Kamini Doobay. “Segregated Healthcare: Past as Present.” Journal of African American Policy 20 (2019): 13-17.
Brooks, Stephen, Douglas L. Koopman, and J. Matthew Wilson. Understanding American Politics, ed. 2. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.
“De Blasio Administration Launches Comprehensive Plan to Reduce Maternal Deaths and Life-Threatening Complications from Childbirth Among Women of Color.” New York City Government, 2018. Retrieved June 2, 2020. https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/365-18/de-blasio-administration-launches-comprehensive-plan-reduce-maternal-deaths-life-threatening.
Ely, Danielle M., and Anne K. Driscoll. “Infant Mortality in the United States, 2017: Data From the Period Linked Birth/Infant Death File.” U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 68, no. 10 (2019): 1-20.
Gamble, Vanessa Northington and Deborah Stone. “U.S. Policy on Health Inequities: The Interplay of Politics and Research.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 31, no. 1 (2006).
Hoffman, Kelly M., Sophie Trawalter, Jordan R. Axt, and M. Norman Oliver. “Racial Bias in Pain Assessment and Treatment Recommendations, and False Beliefs about Biological Differences between Blacks and Whites.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113, no. 16 (2016): 4296-4301.
Largent, Emily A. “Public Health, Racism, and the Lasting Impact of Hospital Segregation.” Public Health Chronicles 133, no. 6 (2018): 715-720.
Nelson, Alondra. Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Ojanuga, Durrenda. “The Medical Ethics of the ‘Father of Gynaecology’, Dr. J. Marion Sims.” Journal of Medical Ethics 19 (1993): 28-31.
Rice, Mitchell F. and Mylon Winn. “Black Health Care in America: A Political Perspective.” Journal of the National Medical Association 82, no. 6 (1990).
Reverby, Susan M. “Invoking ‘Tuskegee’: Problems in Health Disparities, Genetic Assumptions, and History.” Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 21, no. 3 (2010): 26-34.
Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. New York: Liveright, 2017.
“S. 1129 - Medicare for All Act of 2019.” Library of Congress. Accessed July 20, 2020. https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/1129/text.
“State Proposals for Medicaid Work and Community Engagement Requirements. ” National Academy for State Health Policy. Accessed July 7, 2020. https://www.nashp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Medicaid-Work-Requirements-Chart_7_13_20_Final-copy.pdf.
Taylor, Jamila. (2019). “Racism, Inequality, and Health Care for African Americans.” The Century Foundation. Accessed on July 18, 2020. https://tcf.org/content/report/racism-inequality-health-care-african-americans/?agreed=1.
Washington, Harriet A. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. New York: Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006.
Williams, David R. and Lisa A. Cooper. “Reducing Racial Inequities in Health: Using What We Already Know to Take Action.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 606 (2019).
The Black Power Podcast is a podcast that explores black history, with a particularly interest in the Black Power era of the 1960s. Our first episode is a mini episode in honor of Mardi Gras which happened this past Tuesday and will cover the Voodoo Queen herself, Marie Laveau. I hope you enjoy this mini episode and I want to thank you for joining me. You can find the Black Power Podcast on Soundcloud, Apple Podcast, and Youtube. New episodes will be uploaded every Saturday.
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Music: Kevin MacLeod, Night on the Docks
Sources: Blassingame, John W. Black New Orleans, 1860-1880. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Dawdy, Shannon Lee. Building the Devil’s Empire: French Colonial New Orleans. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Kein, Sybil. Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana’s Free People of Color. Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2000.
Long, Carolyn Morrow. “Marie Laveau: A Nineteenth-Century Voudou Priestess.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 46, no. 3 (2005): 262-292.
Martinez, Raymond. Mysterious Marie Laveau: Voodoo Queen and Folk Tales Along the Mississippi. Gretna: Pelican Publishing, 1978.
Neidenbach, Elizabeth. “The Woman, the Legend, the Power: Fictional Representations of Marie Laveau in Twentieth-Century Literature.” Master’s thesis. The College of William and Mary, 2005.
Ward, Marth. Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004.