Medicalizing Blackness
Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840
Rana A. Hogarth
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 09/2017
Pages: 290
Subject: Social Science, History, Medical
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Print ISBN: 9780000000000
eBook ISBN: 9781469632896
DESCRIPTION
Hogarth refigures Atlantic slave societies as medical frontiers of knowledge production on the topic of racial difference. Rather than looking to their counterparts in Europe who collected and dissected bodies to gain knowledge about race, white physicians in Atlantic slaveholding regions created and tested ideas about race based on the contexts in which they lived and practiced. What emerges in sharp relief is the ways in which blackness was reified in medical discourses and used to perpetuate notions of white supremacy.