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Book List: African/African-American Health, Diet, & Nutrition

Book List: African/African-American Health, Diet, & Nutrition

Dec 25th 2020

Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum (2020) by Mab Segrest

African American Folk Healing (2007) by Stephanie Y. Mitchem

African American Home Remedies: A Practical Guide with Usage and Application (2014) by Eddie L. Boyd, Pharm. D. M.S.

African American Medicine in Washington, D.C. – Healing the Capital During the Civil War Era (2014) by Heather Butts, J.D., MPH, MA

African America Slave Medicine: Herbal and Non-Herbal Treatments (2007) by Herbert C. Covey

African Holistic Health (1983, 1989, 1993) by Llaila O. Afrika

African Holistic Motivation Healing Guide (2003) by Kevin Montez Forrest

Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean & Southern Flavors Remixed (2014) by Bryant Terry

A Healthy Foods & Spiritual Nutrition Handbook (1989) by Keith T. Wright

Alkaline Herbal Medicine – Reverse Disease and Heal the Electric Body (2016) by Aqiyl Aniys

Ancient 20, The: 20 Ancient Health Laws Revealed from 20 Countries (2011) by Damien McSwine

Another Dimension to the Black Diaspora: Diet, Disease, and Racism (1981) by Kenneth F. Kiple and Virginia Himmelsteib King

A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind (2019) by Harriet A. Washington

Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (1981, 1993) by James H. Jones

Battling Over Birthing: Black Women and the Maternal Health Care Crisis (2018) by Julia Chinyere Oparah, Helen Arega, Danita Hudson, Linda Jones, and Talita Oseguera

Best Damn Prostate Book, The (2014) by Ray Stone

Birthing A Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South (2006) by Marie Jenkins Schwartz

Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth (2016) edited by Julia Chinyere Oparah and Alicia D. Bonaparte

Black & Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism ( 2012) by John Hoberman

Black Man in A White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine (2015) by Damon Tweedy, M.D.

Black Mental Health Matters: The Ultimate Guide for Mental Health Awareness in the Black Community (2020) by Aaren Snyder, LMFT

Black Pain (2008) by Terrie M. Williams

Black Women’s Mental Health: Balancing Strength & Vulnerability (2017) edited by Stephanie Y. Evans, Kanika Bell & Nsenga K. Burton

Body & Soul: The Black Woman’s Guide to Physical Health and Emotional Well-being (1994) by Linada Villarosa

City of Wellness, The: Restoring Your Health Through the Seven Kitchens of Consciousness (2008) by Queen Afua

Common Medicine Plants of Portland, Jamaica, 2nd edition (2010) edited by Summer Austin and Michael B. Thomas

Covert Genocide: The Plot to Use Birth Control, Abortion, Sterilization, and Gun Control to Exterminate the Black Race (2012) by Anonymous

Delectable Negro, The: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within U.S. Slave Culture (2014) by Vincent Woodard

Dick Gregory’s Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat: Cookin’ With Mother Nature (1974) edited by James R. McGraw with Alvenia M. Fulton

Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation (2012) by Gretchen Long

Doctor Sebi Diet, The: The Complete Guide to a Plant-Based Diet (2020) by Olivia Shields

Domingos Alvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World (2011) by James H. Sweet

Dr. Sebi: Approved Alkaline Diets & Herbal Medicines Guide to Cure Arthritis & Lupus (2020) by Ajeh G. Kotah

Dr. Sebi Approved Herbs (2020) by Jeniffer Smith

Dr. Sebi: Complete Alkaline Diets & Herbs to Cure Herpes & HIV (2020) by Ajeh G. Kotah

Dr. Sebi: How to Naturally Detox the Liver, Reverse Diabetes and High Blood Pressure Through Dr. Sebi Alkaline Diet (2019) by Carin C. Hendry

Dr. Sebi: To Detox & Vitalize Men for Excellent Erection Performance, Fertility and Become Undefeatable Warrior on Bed with Spouse (2020) by Ajeh G. Kotah

Eat Like You Give A Damn (2011) by Ray Stone

Forever Young (1985) by Dr. Paul Goss, N.D., M.T.

Forty Years of Medical Racism: The Tuskegee Experiments (2006) by Michael V. Uschan

From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration After 1945 (2018) by Anne E. Parsons

From Joyce’s Kitchen: A Down Home Vegan Cookbook (1997) by Dr. Joyce Young

Heal Thy Self (1992) by Queen Afua

Healing Herbs of Jamaica (2010) by Ivelyn Harris

Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience (2020) by Sheila Wise Rowe

Healing Wisdom of Africa, The: Finding Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community (1998) by Malidoma Patrice Some’

Health First! The Black Woman’s Wellness Guide (2012) by Eleanor Hinton-Hoytt and Hilary Beard

Health & Healing for African-Americans (1997) by Sheree Crute

Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health (2008, 2014, 2018) by Donald A. Barr, MD, PhD

Heart Smart for Black Women and Latinas (2008) by Jennifer H. Mieres, M.D., F.A.H.A and Terri Ann Parnell, R.N., M.A.

How Not to Eat Pork (or life without the pig) (1985) by Shahrazad Ali

How to Eat to Live, Book 1 (1992) by Elijah Muhammad

How to Eat to Love, Book 2 (1992) by Elijah Muhammad

Hungry for More: A Keeping-It-Real Guide for Black Women on Weight and Body Image (2005) by Robyn McGee

Iboga – The Visionary Root of African Shamanism (2004) by Vincent Ravalec, Mallendi, and Agnes Paicheler

Invisible Visits: Black Middle-Class Women in the American Healthcare System (2019) by Tina K. Sacks

I Will Survive: The African-American Guide to Healing from Sexual Assault and Abuse (2002) by Lori S. Robinson

Jamaican Folk Medicine: A Source of Healing (2004) by Arvilla Payne-Jackson and Mervyn C. Alleyne

Just Medicine: A Cure For Racial Inequality in American Health Care (2015) by Dayna Bowen Matthew

Kemetic Diet: Ancient African Wisdom for Health of Mind, Body, and Spirit (Based on the Natural Diet and Health System of Ancient Kamit and Nubia) (2000) by Dr. Muata Ashby

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (1997, 2017) by Dorothy Roberts

Lay My Burden Down: Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis Among African-Americans (2000) by Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D. and Amy Alexander

Legacy of Racism for Children, The: Psychology, Law, and Public Policy (2020) edited by Margaret C. Stevenson, Bette L. Bottoms, & Kelly C. Burke

Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Race and Mental Illness in the Nation’s Capital (2019) by Martin Summers

Man Heal Thyself (2012) by Queen Afua

Measuring the Effects of Racism (2020) by Robert T. Carter and Alex L. Pieterse

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (2006) by Harriet A. Washington

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and Origins of American Gynecology (2017) by Dierdre Cooper Owens

Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (2011) by Louise Noble

Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia (1981) by Todd L. Savitt

Medisin: The Causes & Solutions to Disease, Malnutrition and the Medical Sins That Are Killing the World (2005) by Dr. Scott Whitaker, ND and Jose Fleming, CN, MH

Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: The History of Corpse Medicine From Renaissance to the Victorians (2016) by Richard Sugg

Nutricide: The Nutritional Destruction of the Black Race (1994) by Llaila O. Afrika

Of Water and Spirit – Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of An African Shaman (1994) Malidoma Patrice Some

Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty (2017) by Thomas J. Ward Jr.

Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry 1840-1880 (2019) by Wendy Gonaver

Principles of Radiant Health – The Philosophies of An African Medicine Woman on Health and Vitality (1998) by Asara S. Tsehai

Psycho-Academic Holocaust: The Special Education & ADHD Wars Against Black Boys (2013) by Dr. Umar Johnson

Psychopathic Racial Personality and Other Essays (1985) by Dr. Bobby Wright

Race and Medicine in Nineteenth-and Early-Twentieth-Century America (2007) by Todd L. Savitt

Racism: Science & Tools for the Public Health Professional (2019) edited by Chandra L. Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS; Derek M. Griffith, PhD; Marino A. Bruce, PhD, MSRC, MDiv; Keon L. Gilbert, DrPH, MPA, MA

Rebirth of Gods, The (1995) by Dr. Paul Goss

Recipes for Elevation: Recipes to Enhance Your Entire Being (2013) by Ra Sekhi Arts Temple

Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning (2019) by Rafia Zafar

Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as A Site Racialization (2011) by Khiara M. Bridges

Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (2019) by Dana-Ain Davis

Ritual: Power, Healing and Community (1993) by Malidoma Patrice Some

Sacred Woman: A Guide to Healing the Feminine Body, Mind, and Spirit (2000) by Queen Afua

Secret Curses of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (2017) by Londa Schiebinger

Seeing Patients: A Surgeon’s Story of Race and Medical Bias (2011) by Augustus A. White III, MD

Self-Healing Power and Therapy: Old Teachings from Africa (2001) by Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau

Shifting Your Paradigm for Optimum Health and Longevity (2013) by U-Shaka Craig, Ph.D

Sick from Freedom – African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction (2015) by Jim Downs

Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society (2010) edited A. Breeze Harper

Staying Strong – Reclaiming the Wisdom of African-American Healing (1999) edited Sara Lomax Reese and Kirk Johnson with Therman Evans, M.D.

Sweet Fetish, The: Sugar and Its Affect On You, Your Emotions, and Your Health (1991) by Keith T. Wright

Thug Kitchen: Eat Like You Give a Fuck – The Official Cookbook (2014) by Rodale Publishing

Too Heavy A Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength (2014) by Chanequa Walker-Barnes

Tuskegee Syphilis Study, The: An Insider’s Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men (1998, 2013) by Fred D. Dray

Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health, The (2020) by Rheeda Walker, PhD

Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare (2003) by Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Urban Kryptonite (2013) by Damien McSwine

Veganism of Color – In Human and Nonhuman Liberation (2019) edited by Julia Feliz Brueck

Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine (2009) by Bryan Terry

Veganism in An Oppressed World (2017) edited by Julia Feliz Brueck

Vitamins & Minerals from A to Z (1993) by Dr. Jewel Pookrum, M.D., PhD

Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement (2003) by Jennifer Nelson

Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations (2002) by Sharla M. Fett

Working the Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African-American Healing (2014) by Michele E. Lee

Wounded Womb, The: The Suppressed Truths Behind the Anatomy, Metaphysics, Politics and Economics of Women’s Diseases (1998) by Phillip Valentine, HSD, CND; MpD