What We're Reading and Watching

This communication is our June 2023 IDEA (inclusion, diversity, equity, antiracism) Dispatch, a digital newsletter that highlights various media to foster discussion about IDEA topics and to promote understanding, inclusion, and belonging in our department. The IDEA Dispatch is lovingly compiled for you by Ann Marie Thompson, Andrew Wong, and Meghan Lane-Fall. Feel free to send us leads and have a great weekend!  

What We're Reading

Articles, News and Opinions:

• Thomas Jefferson University president who liked controversial tweets resigns
• Doctors Are Leaving Academic Medicine. Most Of Them Are Women
• Opinion: We Must Treat the Black Maternal Health Crisis With the Urgency It Deserves
• Do Black patients fare better with Black doctors?
• Opinion: Selective Research from the AAMC The Association of American Medical Colleges goes cherry-picking for data supporting “racial concordance” in patient treatment.
• Opinion: There Is Only Male and Female. Women Pay the Price When We Pretend Otherwise
• Opinion: Gender Is Not a Binary. The Science Is In and There's No Legitimate Debate
• When Ideology Corrupts Medicine—and How One Reporter Exposed it A conversation with Hannah Barnes about the medical scandal at Tavistock, the UK’s flagship youth gender clinic.
• Opinion: My Research on Gender Dysphoria Was Censored. But I Won’t Be.
• Munk debates podcast: Be it resolved, affirmative action should be based on class, not race Arguing for the motion is John McWhorter, Associate Professor of English at Columbia University, and the author of Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
  Arguing against the motion is Randall Kennedy, Harvard Law Professor and the author of For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law
• Opinion: Justice Roberts Chose Colorblindness Over the Constitution
• Opinion: Affirmative Action Is Finally Dead. It's Time for Real Equality
• Opinion: The Fury in France—and Across the West France has endured a week of riots. The violence began on June 27—the day that 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk was killed by a policeman in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre during a traffic stop.
• Braver Angels Gettysburg conference seeks to depolarize the nation
• Braver Angels’ Quest for Civic Renewal
• Certainty Is a Psychological Trap and It's Time to Escape
• Opinion: A Medical School Treatment for DEI
• Allen JS, Oxentenko A. Four Lessons Learned From Career Pivots in Academic Medicine. J Med Internet Res. 2023 Jun 13;25:e47641. doi: 10.2196/47641. PMID: 37310784; PMCID: PMC10337368.

Books

• The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. New York times bestseller. Longlisted for the National Book Award and Andrew Carnegie Medal. Winner of the Porchlight Business Book Award
• The Diversity Bonus. Explains how businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think.
• Freewater—Amina Luqman-Dawson pens a lyrical, accessible historical middle-grade novel about two enslaved children's escape from a plantation and the many ways they find freedom.
  Winner of the John Newbery Medal, winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award and a New York Times Bestseller

          DOCUMENTARIES

• Sugarcane. A tribute to the resilience of Native people and their way of life
• Aftershock. A film which shines a light on the Black maternal health crisis in the U.S.. Awarded the Sundance Film Festival’s Special Jury Award: Impact for Change.
• The Lavender Scare. A documentary which details the widespread persecution and firing of government employees suspected of being gay, considered a threat to national security during the Cold War period.