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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Radical Health: Unwellness, Care, and Latinx Expressive Culture

Radical Health: Unwellness, Care, and Latinx Expressive Culture

Minich, Julie Avril

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Health GeneralGeneral SociologyLatino Studies

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ISBN10: 1478025255
ISBN13: 9781478025252
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Oct 27 2023
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Radical Health Julie Avril Minich examines the potential of Latinx expressive culture to intervene in contemporary health politics, elaborating how Latinx artists have critiqued ideologies of health that frame wellbeing in terms of personal behavior. Within this framework, poor health--obesity, asthma, diabetes, STIs, addiction, and high-risk pregnancies--is attributed to irresponsible lifestyle choices among the racialized poor. Countering this, Latinx writers and visual artists envision health not as individual duty but as communal responsibility. Bringing a disability justice approach to questions of health access and equity, Minich locates a concept of radical health within the work of Latinx artists, including the poetry of Rafael Campo, the music of Hurray for the Riff Raff, the fiction of Angie Cruz, and the performance art of Virginia Grise. Radical health operates as a modality that both challenges the stigma of unhealth and protests the social conditions that give rise to racial health disparities. Elaborating on this modality, Minich claims a critical role for Latinx artists in addressing the structural racism in public health.

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