This is an oral history research project at the University of Kansas Medical Center conducted by Drs. Jason Glenn, Jill Peltzer, Crystal Lumpkins and Carmaletta Williams, in partnership with the Black Archives of Mid-America. The aim of this oral history focus group is to gather community members to listen to their stories of mistreatment in health care settings. We want to better understand the individual, family and community harm caused by racism and identify what we (health care professionals and researchers) can do to repair those harms.

This project will ask:

1. What are the harms suffered at the hands of the medical profession that local community members carry with them?
2. What are their inherited memories and lived experiences of harm at the hands of biomedicine?
3. What restorative actions would it take to repair those harms?
4. How should KU Medical Center and other area institutions work with communities to design and implement its restorative work?

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Envisioning Racism and REPAIR Oral History Project

Did you grow up in the Kansas City area? We’d like to invite you to participate in a focus group as part of our oral history research project.

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