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Black Bodies, Black Health: Imagining a Just Racial Future (ISGRJ, Rutgers University)
Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice (Rutgers University)
About This Project
Summary
Black Bodies, Black Health, an 18-month research project, led by the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation brought together humanists, social scientists, and biomedical researchers from diverse fields of knowledge to engage in interdisciplinary work in exploring and disrupting structural racism in service of creating equitable health outcomes.
Goals & Objectives
This project supported a range of multi-disciplinary research projects focused on physician education; the carceral state; environmental racism; the physiological impact of racism on black bodies; and ethics and decolonial justice in global health, to explore, unpack and disrupt structural racism
Results & Impact
Through seed grants, workshops, conferences and scholarly and public writing, Black Bodies, Black Health represented a first example of Rutgers’ wide-ranging and diverse research strengths to tackle one of the central ways racism shows up as a systemic issue in our present and how we can disrupt it.
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