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Black America and COVID-19

Documenting the impact of COVID-19 on Black America.

FURTHER RESEARCH & RESOURCES

LIBRARY GUIDES AND ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS

Library Reaserch Guide for African American History
https://guides.library.harvard.edu/africanamerican
Library Research Guide for American Studies
https://guides.library.harvard.edu/americanstudies
Library Research Guide for Ethnicity, Migration, Rights
https://guides.library.harvard.edu/ethnicity
COVID-19 Resources for Indigenous Peoples
Arizona State University
https://libguides.asu.edu/c.php?g=1019805&p=7387268
The AAPI Covid-19 Project
https://www.aapicovid19.org
Harvard Resources for Asian & Asian Americans during COVID-19 
Department of East Asian Language and Culture 
https://ealc.fas.harvard.edu/news/resources-asian-and-aapi-students-experiencing-covid-19-related-harassment
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Anti Racism Resources
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/antiracismresources/library
Black Lives Matter: antiracism and health suggested resources
Harvard Countway Library
Racial justice, racial equity, and anti-racism reading list
Harvard Kennedy School
Cooper Gallery
https://coopergallery.fas.harvard.edu/lit-listing
African American Women   
https://guides.library.harvard.edu/schlesinger_african_american_women
Black Women Oral History Project Interviews, 1976–1981   
https://guides.library.harvard.edu/schlesinger_bwohp
Library Research Guide for Beginner's Guide to Finding Data
https://guides.library.harvard.edu/data
#coronavirussyllabus
Social Science Research Council
https://covid19research.ssrc.org/coronavirussyllabus 
Yellow Peril, Archive of Anti-Asian Fear 
http://www.harvard.com/book/yellow_peril_an_archive_of_anti-asian_fear/
Columbia University, Oral History Collection
NYC Covid-19 Oral History, Narrative and Memory Archive
https://www.ccohr.incite.columbia.edu/covid19-oral-history-project

 RESOURCES

The African American Policy Forum
https://aapf.org/resource-list-covid19
Combating Anti-Black Racism
dib.harvard.edu/files/dib/files/combating_anti-black_racism_resources_final.pdf
Harvard University, Mahindra Center
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/response-covid-19
Health Equity Policy Platform for COVID-19 Response and Recovery​
https://humanimpact.org/hip-advocacy/policy-platform/
NAACP: Coronavirus Resources
https://naacp.org/coronavirus/coronavirus-resources/
Social Justice Training Institute
https://sjti.org/
Black Lives Matter
https://blacklivesmatter.org/
Showing Up for Racial Justice
https://www.surjboston.org/about/
Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit
asianamericantoolkit.com
https://www.asianamtoolkit.org/
Autoethnographies of a Pandemic from Brooklyn’s Epicenter
Social Science Research Council
https://inequality-initiative.ssrc.org/autoethnographies-of-a-pandemic-from-brooklyns-epicenter/