Research Guides: Black America and COVID-19: DATA

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The unfortunate combination of overt racism by government and police officials, uncertainty about the country's economic future, and disproportionality in the outbreak of COVID-19 amongst Black Americans has caused undue stress for families and communities. Black families that were already in precarious financial, mental health, and physical health positions before the outbreak of COVID-19 may face an increasingly arduous road back to economic stability as the nation struggles to grapple with the ill effects of decades of systemic and aversive racism that has prevented non-Black Americans from truly examining their own positions of privilege within our society. It is important that researchers attempting to study these phenomena develop research design considering how racism is operationalized and incorporated in their research inquiries. What is clear is that in the aftermath of COVID-19 an interdisciplinary response is needed to ensure the holistic wellbeing of black families struggling to cope with increased violence in their communities and internal feelings of hopelessness and stress that can threaten overall well-being. Research methodologies (qualitative, quantitative, mixed, etc.) should take into consideration how racism within our society has affected social institutions while also reflecting on the unintended biases within the research community by making research activities more accessible to the communities under study.

Co-Curator: Rachel Ludeke, PhD Candidate, New York University, Silver School of Social Work

Presentation of Rachel Ludeke's work on Data gathered on Foster Youth during Covid-19Pandemic (video recording here).

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Rachel Ludeke_ Data Gathered on Foster Youth during the Pandemic

Title	Source	Image
What the COVID-19 Pandemic Means for Black Americans: The bias built into the health system means they will have worse outcomes on average if they get sick Scientific American Uché Blackstock April 7, 2020 https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/what-the-covid-19-pandemic-means-for-black-americans/	blog
Black Women Speak: The Politics of Coronavirus Angela Rye, Tiffany Cross, Sunny Hostin, Jamele Hill, Joy Reid, Brittany Packnett Cunningham, Amanda Seales, and Errin Haines April 11, 2020 www.youtube.com/watch?v=coXYB9ISI_c&feature=youtu.be	event, townhall, video
From The Hospital To The Lab, Black Scientists Are Fighting COVID-19 Forbes Linh Anh Cat April 11, 2020 https://www.forbes.com/sites/linhanhcat/2020/04/11/black-scientists-fighting-covid-19/#69d33e81b671	news
The Injustice of COVID-19 Politics and More Podcast, The New Yorker Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and David Remnick April 13, 2020 https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/the-injustice-of-covid-19	podcast
Black Skin, White Masks: Racism, Vulnerability, & Refuting Black Pathology Department of African American Studies, Princeton University Ruha Benjamin April 15, 2020 https://aas.princeton.edu/news/black-skin-white-masks-racism-vulnerability-refuting-black-pathology	video
Alondra Nelson on Pandemics, Inequality, and the #coronavirussyllabus Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Alondra Nelson and Joanne Lipman April 15, 2020 https://www.ias.edu/ideas/nelson-coronavirus-syllabus	interview, resource collection
Webinar: Data for Black Lives Movement Roundtable (summary) Data for Black Lives Tiasia OBrien April 15, 2020 https://www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/events/data-for-black-lives-movement-roundtable View the original webinar event registration View the Twitter feed for Data for Black Lives (@Data4BlackLives)	event, webinar, blog
The Black Plague: Public officials lament the way that the coronavirus is engulfing black communities. The question is, what are they prepared to do about it? The New Yorker Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor April 16, 2020 https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-black-plague	news
COVID-19, Decarceration, and Abolition: An Evening with Ruth Wilson Gilmore Haymarket Books Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Naomi Murakawa April 16, 2020 https://youtu.be/hf3f5i9vJNM View the original event registration here	event, webinar
Policing Pandemics’ on the dangers of criminalization during pandemic The Triangle Virginia Wardell April 17, 2020 https://www.thetriangle.org/news/policing-pandemics-on-the-dangers-of-criminalization-during-pandemic/	news
Coronavirus in African Americans and Other People of Color Johns Hopkins Medicine Sherita Hill Golden, M.D., M.H.S. April 20, 2020 https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/covid19-racial-disparities	news
COVID-19: In Color, By the Numbers (April 2020 Edition) embracerace April 26, 2020 https://www.embracerace.org/resources/covid-19-in-color-by-the-numbers	news
African Americans bear the brunt of Covid-19's economic impact The Guardian Lauren Aratani and Dominic Rushe April 28, 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/28/african-americans-unemployment-covid-19-economic-impact	news
The Pandemic's Unequal Toll Harvard Magazine, Harvard University Lydialyle Gibson April 29, 2020 https://harvardmagazine.com/2020/04/the-pandemics-unequal-toll Watch the recording here	news, event, video
Inter-American Network on Afro-descendant Population Policies Warns of Disproportionate Impact of the Pandemic in these Communities The Organization of American States April 30, 2020 https://www.oas.org/en/media_center/press_release.asp?sCodigo=E-042/20 Read the press release here	news, press release
Racial Data Dashboard The COVID Tracking Project, The Atlantic https://covidtracking.com/race/dashboard/	data collection
COVID-19 and the Color Line Boston Review Colin Gordon, Walter Johnson, Jason Q. Purnell, and Jamala Rogers May 1, 2020 http://bostonreview.net/race/colin-gordon-walter-johnson-jason-q-purnell-jamala-rogers-covid-19-and-color-line	news
COVID-19 in Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/racial-ethnic-minorities.html	CDC
What We Know About the Covid-19 Race Gap: The CDC is finally releasing more data that show just how unequal the toll of the pandemic is. But we can’t stop there. The Nation Zoë Carpenter May 4, 2020 https://www.thenation.com/article/society/covid-19-racial-disparities/	news
COVID-19 is Devistating Black Communities. And amFAR Just Release New Data and a Website to Prove it. The Body Pro Kenyon Farrow May 6, 2020 https://www.thebodypro.com/article/covid-19-devastating-black-communities-amfar	news, HIV/AIDS
The H1N1 Crisis Predicted Covid-19’s Toll on Black Americans: In 2009, nonwhite patients got sicker faster, recovered more slowly, and died at higher rates than white patients. Now history is repeating itself. Wired Sidney Fussell May 6, 2020 https://www.wired.com/story/h1n1-crisis-predicted-covid-19-toll-black-americans/	news
The Fact of Blackness: COVID-19, Medical Data, and the Racial Design of Public Health Data & Society Tamara K. Nopper, Kenyon Farrow, and Kellie Owens May 8 2020 https://datasociety.net/library/the-fact-of-blackness/ Watch the recording here	event, video
Shared Experiences with COVID-19 in African and African American Communities Africa & COVID-19 Webinar Series, Center for African Studies, Harvard University May 13, 2020 https://africa.harvard.edu/event/africa-covid-19-webinar-series-african-and-african-american-experiences-covid Watch the recording here	event, video, webinar
COVID-19: In Color, By the Numbers (May 2020 Edition) embracerace May 26, 2020 https://www.embracerace.org/resources/covid-19-in-color-by-the-numbers-may-2020	news
Remembering the 100,000 Lives Lost to Coronavirus in America New York Times May 27, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/24/us/us-coronavirus-deaths-100000.html?referringSource=articleShare	news
How Data Became One of the Most Powerful Tools to Fight an Epidemic New York Times Steven Johnson June 10, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/10/magazine/covid-data.html?referringSource=articleShare	news
100 New Yorkers New York Times Monica Chalabi June 11, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/11/multimedia/coronavirus-new-york-inequality.html	opinion
COVID-19: In Color, By the Numbers (June 2020 Edition) embracerace June 22, 2020 https://www.embracerace.org/resources/covid-19-in-color-by-the-numbers-june-2020-edition	news
The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus New York Times Richard A. Oppel Jr., Robert Gebeloff, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Will Wright, and Mitch Smith July 5, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/05/us/coronavirus-latinos-african-americans-cdc-data.html?referringSource=articleShare	news
COVID-19 Open Data by State Data for Black Lives d4bl.org/action.html Access the spreadsheet here	data collection
COVID-19 Equitable Response Community Commons Center for Urban and Racial Equity (CURE) https://urbanandracialequity.org/covid19equitableresponse/	resource collection
COVID-19 - Racial Equity & Social Justice Resources Racial Equality Tools https://www.racialequitytools.org/fundamentals/resource-lists/resources-addressing-covid-19-with-racial-equity-lens	resource collection
CPS and COVID-19 IPUMS CPS https://cps.ipums.org/cps/covid19.shtml?utm_source=IPUMS+Emails&utm_campaign=a0ca935b76-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_05_31_07_13_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a679127ff0-a0ca935b76-21341385	general collection
Supporting Public Opinion Data Related to COVID-19 Roper Center https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/supporting-public-opinion-data-related-covid-19	resource collection
The COVKID Project COVKID https://www.covkidproject.org/disparities Note: COVKID is conducting on-going surveillance of COVID-19 in children and teens. We have a dedicated disparities page - however very little data are currently available for both race/ethnicity AND age. There are currently 2 states reporting (California and Illinois).	resource
COVID Racial Data Tracker: Ibram X. Kendi on How Better Data Reveals the True Toll of the Pandemic Democracy Now! May 27, 2020 https://www.democracynow.org/2020/5/27/the_covid_racial_data_tracker	news, interview
Pandemic Portal Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab https://www.thejustdatalab.com/about-pandemic-portal	resource
“The convergence of police violence and COVID-19” CC: World Ruha Benjamin and David Theo Goldberg July 22, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuXaf_-fKPY&fbclid=IwAR04J9sF3jSVkSdn28EGT1uYH4lBQ889K0rCbQBSumBhrOYZK0xnM4VqaI8&ab_channel=HKW%E2%80%93HausderKulturenderWelt	video
COVID-19 Global Research Registry for Public Health and Social Sciences Converge https://converge.colorado.edu/resources/covid-19/public-health-social-sciences-registry	resource