Yes, indeed, "Learning about race and racism [is] a very, very worthwhile
thing to do."

Being taken to task for offering earlier a link to an excellent curriculum
of resources, on a topic that impacts public health worldwide, because it
focuses on the American experience, I offer anew, here, some other
excellent resources on racism, and social determinants of public health.

I urge anyone who finds my bibliography lacking to please, help us all.
Share YOUR favorite readings, links, or blogs. From any country; about any
culture.

(1) Institutional and structural racism, oppression and classism all
contribute to disparities in public health -- all over the world. This
is an excellent
resource, from the World Health Organization, on social determinants of
health.  ("(SDH) are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work,
live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the
conditions of daily life. These forces and systems include economic
policies and systems, development agendas, social norms, social policies
and political systems."  http://www.who.int/social_determinants/themes/en/

(2)  And, from another portion of the WHO website, case studies of social
determinants of public health (on many elements of public health; not just
focused on BFg) from 29 countries/WHO regions around the world:
http://www.who.int/sdhconference/resources/case_studies/en/

(3)  "Scratch an Australian to find a racist.  It's easy to use racist
terms without meaning to.  Racism exists at all levels of Australian
society but Australians are in denial."
https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/people/racism-in-aboriginal-australia

(4)  From Canada, a report "discuss[es] how the dominant racialized group
(i.e., European settlers) expresses racism in historic and current contexts
and how Aboriginal people in Canada experience racism in interpersonal,
structural and sometimes violent ways. We examine racism within government
policies, healthcare, and judicial systems, and explore the unique ways
that racism is experienced by Aboriginal peoples and how it impacts their
well-being."
http://www.nccah-ccnsa.ca/Publications/Lists/Publications/Attachments/131/2014_07_09_FS_2426_RacismPart2_ExperiencesImpacts_EN_Web.pdf

(5) "Europeans tends to talk about 'xenophobia' while Americans tend to
talk about 'racism.'" This Oct 2015 article (entitled "Is Eastern Europe
More Xenophobic and Western Europe?") was published in The Atlantic,
exploring the refugee crisis in Europe. The Atlantic is an American
publication with a solid history of publishing in-depth explorations into
racism and oppression.  This article discusses research done by a "team
from VU University Amsterdam, the University of Oslo, and the Pacifica
Graduate Institute in California." See:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/10/xenophobia-eastern-europe-refugees/410800/

(6) A 2014 journal article referenced in the link above, "Xenophobia and
Racism" http://philpapers.org/archive/KIMXAR.pdf

(7)  This one is knock-your-socks-off cool.  Epidemiologists joke that "It
doesn't count if you can't count it." "The World Values Survey (
www.worldvaluessurvey.org) is a global network of social scientists
studying changing values and their impact on social and political life, led
by an international team of scholars, with the WVS association and
secretariat headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. The WVS is the largest
non-commercial, cross-national, time series investigation of human beliefs
and values ever executed, currently including interviews with almost
400,000 respondents. Moreover the WVS is the only academic study covering
the full range of global variations, from very poor to very rich countries,
in all of the world’s major cultural zones."

You can compare country-to-country, over time, how respondents answered an
in-depth survey on many elements of life. "The WVS has over the years
demonstrated that people’s beliefs play a key role in economic development,
the emergence and flourishing of democratic institutions, the rise of
gender equality, and the extent to which societies have effective
government."  Several cool pages are here:
(a) http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSContents.jsp
(b) Live cultural map (1981-2015):
http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSContents.jsp
(c) Analysis Tool.  Pick your time period; pick your countries, see how
they compared in their survey answers.  I randomly chose Mexico, Chile,
Brazil (Summer Olympics!), and Colombia, and compared the answers to the
question "All in all, how would you describe your state of health these
days?"  I then drilled deeper, seeing how the answer to the Q varied
depending on the respondent's self-identified gender, and social class.
See: http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSOnline.jsp

(8) Lastly, the Harvard School of Public Health's Maternal Health Task
Force has a mission to "ensure that that maternal health practitioners,
policy makers, researchers and advocates around the world have access to
the most current and reliable evidence and information (imbedded link:
https://www.mhtf.org/projects/#access-to-evidence-and-information) on
maternal health through our open-access online knowledge management system
(imedded link:https://www.mhtf.org/)."  The Global Maternal Health News page
  "pulls the most current updates from peer-reviewed journals, news outlets
and global health websites together in one location for you."
Their scope is wider than racism and oppression ... but maternal/child
health is of obvious interest to those of us in breastfeeding and lactation
support, with an international certification.
https://www.mhtf.org/resources/global-maternal-health-news/

Liz Brooks, JD, IBCLC, FILCA
Wyndmoor, PA, USA

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