Dána-Ain Davis’s Reproductive Injustice is a remarkable book by a remarkable anthropologist, published at a remarkable time in United States reproductive political history. In the contemporary United States, white supremacy, xenophobia, racism, and sexism threaten every foundation on which the struggle for reproductive justice has been built. This threat is borne out in rising neighborhood and job and food insecurity; …
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Dána-Ain Davis’s Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (NYU Press, 2019) is a vividly written ethnography highlighting how medical racism shapes birth outcomes for Black women in America. Under the sign of maternal health risk and prematurity, Davis argues, the American medical system forces Black women to participate in a limited array of interventions informed by theories of wellness …
This article is part of the following series: Dispatches from the pandemic
Like a CT-scan of the American body politic, the COVID-19 crisis has revealed deep fault-lines in our medical system, especially the inequities that stratify health care along lines of race, class, age and disability. In the midst of ongoing devastation, future visions of a more just world that might emerge from this situation include an alternative model advanced by disability …
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The presence of disability in American public culture is at once increasingly visible and yet still segregated and rendered invisible. In our multi-sited ethnographic research on Disability, Personhood, and “the New Normal” …
This article is part of the following series: Inhabitable Worlds
…If one considers people who now have disabilities, people who are likely to develop disabilities in the future, and people who are or who will be affected by the disabilities of those close to them, then disability affects today or will affect tomorrow the lives of most Americans. The future of disability in America is not a minority issue. (Institute