I have just read Systemic: How racism is making us ill by Layal Liverpool. A thoroughly researched, beautifully written book, it weaves together personal experience and interviews with devastating statistics.
Liverpool, who used to work at New Scientist, methodically lays out how racism can harm people’s health, from the damage that the stress of experiencing it does to the body to how training images of skin conditions are disproportionately of pale skin types. She also dismantles the use of “race adjustments” in some medical test results and shows how they reinforce systemic racism. Essential reading.
For a change of pace,…
