Fatal Denial argues that over the past 150 years, US health authorities' explanations of and interventions into Black infant mortality have been characterized by the ";biopolitics of racial innocence,"; a term describing the institutionalized mechanisms in health care and policy that...

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1. Verfasser:	Menzel, Annie (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Berkeley, CA University of California Press [2024]
Schriftenreihe:	Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century 9
Schlagworte:	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Online-Zugang:	DE-Aug4 Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	Fatal Denial argues that over the past 150 years, US health authorities' explanations of and interventions into Black infant mortality have been characterized by the ";biopolitics of racial innocence,"; a term describing the institutionalized mechanisms in health care and policy that have at once obscured, enabled, and perpetuated systemic infanticide by blaming Black mothers and communities themselves. Following Black feminist scholarship demonstrating that the commodification and theft of Black women's reproductive bodies, labors, and care is foundational to US racial capitalism, Annie Menzel posits that the polity has made Black infants vulnerable to preventable death. Drawing on key Black political thought and praxis around infant mortality-from W.E.B. Du Bois and Mary Church Terrell to Black midwives and birth workers-this work also tracks continued refusals to acknowledge this routinized reproductive violence, illuminating both a rich history of care and the possibility of more transformative futures
Beschreibung:	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Jun 2024)
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (382 Seiten)
ISBN:	9780520969650
DOI:	10.1525/9780520969650