Reproducing race : an ethnography of pregnancy as a site of racialization / Khiara M. Bridges.
2011
KF3825.M38 B75 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
Reproducing race : an ethnography of pregnancy as a site of racialization / Khiara M. Bridges.
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Description
xi, 293 pages ; 23 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Alpha Hospital : unique, but not singular
Pregnancy, Medicaid, state regulation, and legal subjection
The production of unruly bodies
The "primitive pelvis," racial folklore, and atavism in contemporary form of medical disenfranchisement
The curious case of the "Alpha patient population"
Wily patients, welfare queens, and the reiteration of race.
Pregnancy, Medicaid, state regulation, and legal subjection
The production of unruly bodies
The "primitive pelvis," racial folklore, and atavism in contemporary form of medical disenfranchisement
The curious case of the "Alpha patient population"
Wily patients, welfare queens, and the reiteration of race.
Summary
Reproducing Race, an ethnography of pregnancy and birth at a large New York City public hospital, explores the role of race in the medical setting. Khiara M. Bridges investigates how race- commonly seen as biological in the medical world- is socially constructed among women dependent on the public healthcare system for prenatal care and childbirth, and demonstrates how the "medicalization" of social problems reproduces racial stereotypes and governs the bodies of poor women of color.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-286) and index.
Call Number
KF3825.M38 B75 2011
Language
English
ISBN
9780520268944 (alkaline paper)
0520268946 (alkaline paper)
9780520268951 (alkaline paper)
0520268954 (alkaline paper)
0520268946 (alkaline paper)
9780520268951 (alkaline paper)
0520268954 (alkaline paper)
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