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Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
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Alondra Nelson (Goodreads Author)
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: h...more
Hardcover, 288 pages
Published
October 20th 2011
by Univ Of Minnesota Press
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Great book. Would assign to a grad seminar in medical sociology. She recovers the history of the Black Panthers' health programs. Focuses on the institutional, ideological, and tactical goals these health programs served. (Institutional--the health programs served as an alternative to the thin democracy and inadequate programs of the War on Poverty; Ideological--linked radical theorists like Guevara, Mao, and Franz Fanon to the Panthers' critique of 20th century social inequality; Tactical--corr...more
Yes, I am a historian and like to challenge myself with reading outside of my preferred time period. My preferred time 1880-1930. So why the 1960s? The image of the BPP as a gang of socialist, Black nationalist with a bend toward violence has been the media fed image for those post-1960s people. I know a number of scholars who work on this topic and their research has proven a deeper and more complex network of justice fighters and crusaders. Nelson's work explores the social action performed by...more
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This book was pretty fucking awesome; I'd say it's required reading for people interested in Disability Studies, health activists, and people working as health professionals. Nelson details the BPP's multi-pronged approach to health activism, citing the profound influence of Fanon's critiques of psychiatry as a colonial weapon in The Wretched of the Earth. She explores the formation of the Free People's Health Clinics as the main framework of their health efforts, analyzes their grassroots campa...more
Great to learn more about the history of radical health and wellness movements in the u.s. Really inspiring!
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Alondra Nelson teaches sociology and gender studies at Columbia University. Her award-winning book, Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination was published by the University of Minnesota Press. She is also an editor of Genetics and the Unsettled Past The Collision of DNA Race and History; Technicolor: Race Technology and Everyday Life; and "Afrofuturism" (...more
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