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