Alondra Nelson

Body and Soul

The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination

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Produktbeschreibung

Alondra Nelson is associate professor of sociology at Columbia University, where she also holds an appointment in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She is coeditor of Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life and Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780816676491
• ISBN-10: 0816676496
• Artikelnr.: 39126062

Autorenporträt

Alondra Nelson is associate professor of sociology at Columbia University, where she also holds an appointment in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She is coeditor of Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life and Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision between DNA, Race, and History.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface: Politics by Other MeansAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations
Introduction: Serving the People Body and Soul1. African American Responses
to Medical Discrimination before 1966 2. Origins of Black Panther Party
Health Activism3. The People’s Free Medical Clinics4. Spin Doctors: The
Politics of Sickle Cell Anemia5. As American as Cherry Pie: Contesting the
Biologization of ViolenceConclusion: Race and Health in the Post Civil
Rights Era
NotesIndex