A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind by Harriet A. Washington This book details how environmental and medical policies have impacted the health outcomes of Black Americans through systemic inequities and institutionalized racism.

Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson The text examines the Black Panther Party's healthcare activism and their establishment of free medical clinics as a response to medical racism in the United States.

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts The book explores how medical research and practice continue to perpetuate racial categories despite scientific evidence discrediting biological concepts of race.

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts This work chronicles the systematic control of Black women's reproductive rights through medical practices, law, and social policies throughout American history.

Behind the Mask of Freemasonry: Race, Gender, and Medicine in the Post-Emancipation Atlantic World by Deirdre Cooper Owens The text connects African American Freemasonry to the development of medical knowledge and healthcare practices in Black communities during the nineteenth century.

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