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UNINA9910461013403321 |
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Autore |
Nelson Alondra |
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Titolo |
Body and soul : the Black Panther Party and the fight against medical discrimination / / Alondra Nelson |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-4529-4816-X |
0-8166-7875-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (310 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Minorities - Medical care - United States |
Discrimination in medical care - United States |
Race discrimination - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 p |
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