Bowdoin's 1619 Project Event Series: 2. Bodies on the Line

• Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era, by Dan Berger (ebook)
• Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, by James Forman, Jr. (Bowdoin)
• New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander (ebook)
• Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People, by Ben Crump (Bowdoin)
• Body & Soul: The Black Women's Guide to Physical Health and Emotional Well-Being, edited by Linda Villarosa (Bowdoin)
• Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination, by Alondra Nelson (ebook)
• Death Gap: How Inequality Kills, by David A. Ansell (Bowdoin)
• Handbook of African American Health, eds. Anthony Lemelle, Wornie Reed, Sandra Taylor (ebook)
• How Cancer Crossed the Color Line, by Keith Wailoo (Bowdoin)
• Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation, by Samuel Roberts (ebook)
• Minority Populations and Health: an Introduction to Health Disparities in the United States, by Thomas A. LaVeist (Bowdoin)
• Vitality Politics: Health, Debility, and the Limits of Black Emancipation, by Stephen Knadler (Bowdoin)

• McEwen, Craig A., and Bruce S. McEwen. "Social Structure, Adversity, Toxic Stress, and Intergenerational Poverty: An Early Childhood Model." Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 43, no. 1, 2017, pp. 445-472.
• Pettit, Becky, and Bruce Western. "Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration." American Sociological Review, 69.2 (2004): 151-169.
• Wheeler, Sarahn M., and Allison S. Bryant. "Racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care." Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics 44.1 (2017): 1-11.
• Williams, David R., Jourdyn A. Lawrence, and Brigette A. Davis. "Racism and health: evidence and needed research."  Annual Review of Public Health 40 (2019): 105-125.

A selection of materials that are mentioned in the readings or closely related materials.

• Disparities in Health and Health Care: Five Key Questions and Answers, KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation), 4 March 2020.
• "Medicaid and Mortality: New Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data," Sarah Miller, Norman Johnson, Laura R. Wherry, NBER Working Paper No. 26081, revised August 2020.
• "A captive people build the South", nola.com, 13 June 1993.

• Blood Sugar Rising: America's Hidden Diabetes Epidemic, 2020
• Flint's Deadly Water, PBS Frontline, 2019
• Prison State, PBS Frontline, 2014
• True Justice - Brian Stevenson's Fight for Equality, HBO Films.
  From Emmy(r)-winners Peter, George and Teddy Kunhardt (King in the Wilderness, John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls), this feature documentary follows Bryan Stevenson - lawyer and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative - through his experiences as a capital defense attorney and advocate for community-based reform.
• Milwaukee 53206 - America's Mass Incarceration Crisis, Grasshopper Films.
  The United States has the most prisoners of any nation in the world both in raw numbers and by percentage of the population. These numbers are further compounded within Milwaukee's mostly African-American 53206 zip code, where 62% of adult men have spent time in prison, making this America's most incarcerated ZIP code.
• Unnatural Causes, California Newsreel.
  Unnatural Causes sounds the alarm about the extent of our glaring socio-economic and racial inequities in health and searches for their root causes. But those causes are not what we might expect. While we pour more and more money into drugs, dietary supplements and new medical technologies, Unnatural Causes crisscrosses the country investigating the findings that are shaking up conventional understanding of what really makes us healthy or sick.

• Prison Songs: Historical Recordings from Parchman Farm, Mississippi State Penitentiary, 1947-1948, recorded and collected by Alan Lomax. (Includes "related" liner notes)  

Vol. 1: Murderous Home
Vol 2: Don'tcha hear Poor Mother Calling?

• Prison Worksongs, recorded at Angola State Penitentiary, LA (includes "related" liner notes)

A selection of materials that are mentioned in the readings or closely related materials.

Government Publications

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
  • Cut Down on Added Sugars
  • Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2015-2020
• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Adult Obesity Facts
  • Diabetes Report Card
• Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Black and Minority Health (Heckler Report), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Volume I: Executive Summary, 1985
  • Volume II: Crosscutting Issues in Minority Health, 1985
  • Volume III: Cancer, 1986
  • Volume IV: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, Part 1, 1986
  • Volume IV: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, Part 2, 1986
  • Volume V: Homicide, Suicide, and Unintentional Injuries, 1986
  • Volume VI: Infant Mortality and Low Birth Weight, 1986
  • Volume VII: Chemical Dependency and Diabetes, 1986
  • Volume VIII: Hispanic Health Issues, 1986
• National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Historical Statistics of the United States, Slave trade in New York, 1701 to 1764, p. 1173; Number and tonnage capacity of ships outward and inward bound, to and from 5 cities, by destination and origin, 1714 to 1772, pp. 1180-1181.
• The Tariff, Miles Taylor of Louisiana, House of Representatives, Congressional Globe, 5 February 1857, 251-254.
• Farm Service Agency, United States Department of Agriculture
• [H.R. 40 and the Path to Restorative Justice]. Congressional "hearing before the Subcom on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties to consider H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act, to establish a commission to study impact of institution of slavery in U.S. and racial discrimination against African Americans, and to recommend remedies to Congress."
• Table exhibiting number of vaccinations and number of cases of small-pox and cholera treated, and deaths, in U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Freedmen's Affairs, Bureau of Freedman and Refugees. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 598.), 40th Congress, 2nd Session, March 10, 1868, H.Rpt. 30, serial 1357, p. 9.
• Freedmen's affairs, a racist statement by Samuel Sullivan Cox, Representative from Ohio, Congressional Globe, February 19, 1864, pp. 708ff.

Laws

• An Act for the more effectual preventing and punishing the conspiracy and insurrection of Negroes and other slaves; for the better regulating them, and for repealing the Acts therein mentioned, relating thereto, passed October 29, 1730, Laws of New-York.
• Social Security Act of 1935, 49 Stat. 620, enacted August 14, 1935.
• Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 124 Stat. 119, March 23, 2010.

Other Primary Sources

• Twelve years a slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River, in Louisiana, Solomon Northup.
• A Book of Medical Discourses: in two parts, Rebecca Crumpler
• Publications of the National Medical Association available from HathiTrust.
• A Treatise on Tropical Diseases on Military Operations and on the Climate of the West-Indies, Benjamin Moseley, 1792. Includes racist characterizations.

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