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Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization

Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization

Bridges, Khiara

Paperback

Medical ReferenceAnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0520268954
ISBN13: 9780520268951
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Mar 18 2011
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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. Bridges argues that race carries powerful material consequences for these women even when it is not explicitly named, showing how they are marginalized by the practices and assumptions of the clinic staff. Deftly weaving ethnographic evidence into broader discussions of Medicaid and racial disparities in infant and maternal mortality, Bridges shines new light on the politics of healthcare for the poor, demonstrating how the medicalization of social problems reproduces racial stereotypes and governs the bodies of poor women of color.

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