RT Book
T1 Fatal denial: racism and the political life of black infant mortality
T2 Reproductive justice: a new vision for the twenty-first century
JF Reproductive justice: a new vision for the twenty-first century
A1 Menzel, Annie 1976-
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of California Press
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1877173339
AB "Fatal Denial argues that over the past 150 years, American 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 inexorably produced Black infants' vulnerability 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 of this routinized reproductive violence, illuminating both a rich history of care and the possibility of more transformative futures"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HB1323.I42
SN 978-0-520-29719-7
SN 978-0-520-29720-3
SN 0-520-29720-2
SN 0-520-29719-9
K1 African American infants : Mortality : United States
K1 Biopolitics : United States
K1 Race discrimination : United States
K1 Biopolitics : Unties States
K1 Discrimination in medical care : United States
K1 Infants : Mortality : United States
K1 Race discrimination : Unties States
K1 Nourrissons noirs américains : Mortalité : États-Unis
K1 Biopolitique : États-Unis
K1 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General
K1 Biopolitics
K1 Race discrimination
K1 Gesundheitswesen
K1 Rassismus
K1 Schwarze
K1 Kindersterblichkeit
K1 United States
K1 Usa