Body and Soul The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination

Name: Body and Soul The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
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ISBN: 9780816676491

ISBN-10: 0816676496

ISBN-13: 9780816676491

Edition: 2013

Authors: Alondra Nelson

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Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. Here Alondra Nelson deftly recovers an indispensable but lesser-known aspect of the organization’s broader struggle for social justice: health care. The Black Panther Party’s health activism—its network of free health clinics, its campaign to raise awareness about genetic disease, and its challenges to medical discrimination—was an expression of its founding political philosophy and also a recognition that poor blacks were both underserved by mainstream…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 9/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Alondra Nelson is a Ph.D. candidate in the American Studies Program at New York University.



Preface: Politics by Other Means


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction: Serving the People Body and Soul



African American Responses to Medical Discrimination before 1966



Origins of Black Panther Party Health Activism



The People's Free Medical Clinics



Spin Doctors: The Politics of Sickle Cell Anemia



As American as Cherry Pie: Contesting the Biologization of Violence


Conclusion: Race and Health in the Post Civil Rights Era


Notes


Index