Let's Put Culture at the Center with Dr. Gregory Carr
In our first episode of the Hello Somebody COVID-19 Series, Senator Turner speaks with Dr. Gregory Carr, Associate Professor and Chair at Howard University’s Department of Afro-American Studies. With shocking clarity, we learn the irreversible truths behind why black folks -- in particular -- are more hesitant to get vaccinated. From Eugenics, to “snatching bodies,” to health policy based on anti-blackness, to even the Atlanta Child Murders, we begin to understand the cultural and historical PTSD black folks are experiencing in this time of being able to trust this government-led, yet necessary vaccination. Hello.Somebody!
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LINKS
Dr. Gregory Carr
https://gs.howard.edu/greg-carr
Fannie Lou Hamer (hysterectomy)
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedomsummer-hamer/
Dr. James Marion Sims
2016 Study: “Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4843483/
Atlanta Child Murders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_murders_of_1979%E2%80%931981
Books:
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/douglas-blackmon
The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780805039399
Those Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara
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