Body and soul : the Black Panther Party and the fight against medical discrimination / / Alondra Nelson

• Autore: Nelson Alondra
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (310 pages)
• Disciplina: 362.1089/96073
• Soggetto topico: Minorities - Medical care - United States; Discrimination in medical care - United States; Race discrimination - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Body and soul
• ISBN: 1-4529-4816-X; 0-8166-7875-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461013403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II