Layal Liverpool on Systemic: How Racism Is Making Us Sick

Black and white women are just as likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States, but black women are 41 per cent more likely to die from it. Meanwhile, the lion’s share of recent studies on racism and health were conducted in the US. How do we make sense of these facts? What do we know, and where should we be looking for more information? Join Layal Liverpool,(Link is external) author of Systemic: How Racism is Making Us Sick for a wide-ranging conversation about biopolitics, racial inequity, and medical research with Princeton graduate student Aliya Ram.(Link is external) Liverpool is a science journalist with a PhD from Oxford on viral immunology. The conversation is supported by Art Hx,(Link is external) a project that explores the legacies of medical colonialism and racism in contemporary visual and museum cultures.

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